psychocentric
Syllables: psy·cho·centr·ic/ˌsaɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛntɹɪk/US/ˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
psychocentric adjective: primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.
Adjective
psychocentric (comparative more psychocentric, superlative most psychocentric)
- Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.
- I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many psychocentric influences.1890 January 11, “His Choice”, in Pick-Me-Up, volume III, number 67, London: […] Wertheimer, Lea & Co., […]; and published by Henry Reichardt, […], →OCLC, page 244, columns 1–2
- For the issue between realism and subjectivism does not arise from a psychocentric predicament—a difficulty of conceiving of objects apart from any consciousness—but rather from the much more radical 'ego-centric predicament,' the difficulty of conceiving known things to exist independently of my...1912 August, Edwin B[issel] Holt et al., “Introduction”, in The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section I (The Historical Significance of...
- Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.
- These experts type some aerophobes as psychocentric individuals so self-focused on imaginary problems they have little energy left to enjoy life. Other fearful flyers are stymied by territory-boundedness—an unadventurous spirit.1972, Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1
- Members of the near-psychocentric and psychocentric segment, the remaining segment (15–20%), prefer a destination that does not exhibit its foreign culture. These tourists spend all of their time inside tourism complexes, stay for shorter periods of time, and are not big spenders. They are bargain...1991, Ugur Yucelt, Phyllis W. Isley, “Marketing of Tourism in a Competitive World Environment”, in Erdener Kaynak, editor, International Marketing: Sociopolitical and Behavioral Aspects, Binghamton...
Noun
psychocentric (plural psychocentrics)
- A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.
- [A] non-flyer was likely to experience many of these same problems which often resulted in very severely restricted life styles. Basically, we can see that this is a self inhibited, nervous, and non-adventuresome type of person. We call this individual the Psychocentric, from "psyche" meaning...1974 February, Stanley C. Plog, “Why Destination Areas Rise and Fall in Popularity”, in Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, volume 14, number 4, Ithaca, N.Y.: School of Hotel...
- Currently, given the high level of visibility ski touring is experiencing, peer influence becomes more of a factor as participants are drawn from the marginally interested population and the "psychocentrics" or followers.1980, Timothy B. Knopp, G. Ballman, L. C. Merriam, “The Dynamics of Recreation Participation: Ski Touring in Minnesota”, in Proceedings: 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium (USDA Forest...
psychocentric meaning in Indonesian
psychocentric in Indonesian
- of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks
- psikosentris
Examples of psychocentric in a sentence
- My view is psychocentric in that a judgment which appears to have an objective reference is found psychologically to have a reference, unsuspected by the person judging, to himself.1936, J[ohn] O[ulton] Wisdom, “Towards the Psychocentric Conception of Right”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume XXXVI...
- Gothic faces are psychocentric, dominated by the soul, which speaks through the eye.1963, Hans Weigert, “[Introduction]”, in Peter Gorge, transl., edited by Harald Busch and Bernd Lohse, Gothic Sculpture (European...
- In the work of individual theorists, psychocentric and reocentric assumptions are often combined in various ways.2005, Roy Harris, “Introduction”, in The Semantics of Science, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN...
- A psychocentric ethic would count this as an ethical minus, which must be taken into account in evaluating the logging policy, in addition to how things will be for humans.2009, Robert Charles Elliot, “Ethics and Values”, in Robert Charles Elliot, editor, Institutional Issues Involving Ethics and Justice...
Forms of psychocentric
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more psychocentric |
| superlative | most psychocentric |
| Noun | |
| plural | psychocentrics |
Origin of psychocentric
The adjective is derived from psycho- (prefix meaning ‘relating to the mind or soul’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective. Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974: see the quotation.
Words formed from psychocentric
Words that rhyme with psychocentric
- eccentric
- allocentric
- centric
- egocentric
- bicentric
- concentric
- excentric
- geocentric
- heliocentric
- acentric
- Americocentric
- Croatocentric
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Questions about psychocentric
- What does psychocentric mean?
- Psychocentric means primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.
- What is psychocentric in Indonesian?
- Psychocentric in Indonesian is psikosentris. See Psychocentric meaning in Indonesian.
- How do you use psychocentric in a sentence?
- My view is psychocentric in that a judgment which appears to have an objective reference is found psychologically to have a reference, unsuspected by the person judging, to himself.
- What part of speech is psychocentric?
- Psychocentric can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychocentric?
- Psychocentric is pronounced /ˌsaɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛntɹɪk/ (UK).
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