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historicentric

historicentric adjective: focused or based on history.

Adjective

historicentric (comparative more historicentric, superlative most historicentric)

  1. Focused or based on history.
    • Byard was shuffling through the treasure chest of jazz tradition before most of today's historicentric neo-cons were born.1994, “Metropolis”, in The New Yorker, volume 70, numbers 23-30, page 12
    • What is coming in place of this "old culture" of humanistic historicentric education?2012, Piotr Stolarski ·, After History, page 19

Forms of historicentric

comparativemore historicentric
superlativemost historicentric

Origin of historicentric

From history + -centric.

Questions about historicentric

What does historicentric mean?
Historicentric means focused or based on history.
What part of speech is historicentric?
Historicentric is an adjective.

Words near historicentric in the dictionary

  1. historically
  2. historicalness
  3. historicals
  4. historicaster
  5. historicasters
  6. historicentric
  7. historicide
  8. historicisation
  9. historicise
  10. historicised
  11. historicises

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