anthropocentricity · noun — the quality of being anthropocentric. It carries an Arena rating of 1069, earned across 21 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, anthropocentricity ranks #1,099 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,489 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #7,653 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #10,371 of 17,128 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “anthropocentricity” is a great word
ANTHROPOCENTRICITY — [Noun] The quality or state of interpreting reality exclusively in terms of human values and experience. From anthropocentric (from Greek anthrōpos, "human being," and kentrikos, "centered") + the noun-forming suffix -ity. Unlike anthropocentrism, which denotes a specific doctrine of human centrality, or ecocentrism, which deliberately decenters humanity, anthropocentricity is the pervasive, often unconscious watermark on human thought. It is the instinct to rank a dolphin’s intelligence by its capacity for human speech, to call a landscape “barren” for lacking cultivated fields, and to frame a species’ extinction as a tragedy for the data lost—the quiet, colossal vanity of seeing the cosmos as a mirror for a single, lonely audience.
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Etymology
From anthropocentric + -ity.
noun
- The quality of being anthropocentric.
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