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omphalism

omphalism noun: a tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.

Noun

omphalism (uncountable)

  1. A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.
    • Last Thursdayism is a response to omphalism which posits that, by the same logic, the world might have been created last Thursday (or, by implication, any given date and time), but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars...2009, William Powell, “Creation Theology”, in Philosophy of Scientific Creationism, New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House, page 224

Origin of omphalism

From omphal- + -ism.

Questions about omphalism

What does omphalism mean?
Omphalism means a tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.
What part of speech is omphalism?
Omphalism is a noun.

Words near omphalism in the dictionary

  1. omphalectomies
  2. omphalectomy
  3. omphali
  4. omphalic
  5. omphalinoid
  6. omphalism
  7. omphalites
  8. omphalitis
  9. omphalo-
  10. omphaloarteritis
  11. omphalocele

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