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Sunnicentric

Sunnicentric adjective: centred on or overemphasizing Sunnis.

Adjective

Sunnicentric (comparative more Sunnicentric, superlative most Sunnicentric)

  1. (rare) Centred on or overemphasizing Sunnis
    • As the majority of the world's Muslim population today is Sunni, and given the constraints of chapter such as this, much of what follows is unavoidably "Sunnicentric" […]2012, Donald Boisvert, Queer religion, p 70
    • […] and some Sunnicentric legal rules […]2011, James Shinn, Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer - Page 26

Forms of Sunnicentric

comparativemore Sunnicentric
superlativemost Sunnicentric

Origin of Sunnicentric

From Sunni + -centric.

Questions about Sunnicentric

What does Sunnicentric mean?
Sunnicentric means centred on or overemphasizing Sunnis.
What part of speech is Sunnicentric?
Sunnicentric is an adjective.

Words near Sunnicentric in the dictionary

  1. Sunni
  2. Sunni belt
  3. Sunni Islam
  4. Sunni Islamic
  5. Sunnic
  6. Sunnicentric
  7. Sunnicidal
  8. Sunnidom
  9. sunnier
  10. sunnies
  11. sunniest

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