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anthropocentrisms

anthropocentrisms is the plural of anthropocentrism.

Meaning of anthropocentrism

Noun

anthropocentrism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropocentrisms)

  1. A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of everything, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
    • Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful? The arguments against human—centredness I have advanced in the previous chapter include a strongly prudential one for the human species — that anthropocentrism leads to […]2005, Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123
    Synonyms:
    homocentricism, humanocentrism

Questions about anthropocentrisms

What is anthropocentrisms the plural of?
Anthropocentrisms is the plural of anthropocentrism.

Words near anthropocentrisms in the dictionary

  1. anthropocentrically
  2. anthropocentricism
  3. anthropocentricisms
  4. anthropocentricity
  5. anthropocentrism
  6. anthropocentrisms
  7. anthropocentrist
  8. anthropocentrists
  9. anthropochore
  10. anthropochores
  11. anthropochoric

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