anthropocentric

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -centric.

Adjective

anthropocentric (comparative more anthropocentric, superlative most anthropocentric)

1. Placing humans at the center of something, giving preference to humans above all other considerations.
   • 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 325:

     But just as we recognize that nature doesn't provide a very good guide for human social conduct, isn't it anthropocentric of us to assume that our moral system offers an adequate guide for what should happen in nature?

Derived terms

• anthropocentrically
• anthropocentricity
• anthropocentrise, anthropocentrize
• anthropocentrism
• anthropocentrist
• antianthropocentric

 

Translations

giving preference to humans

• Afrikaans: antroposentries
• Albanian: antropocentrik
• Aragonese: antropocentrico
• Asturian: antropocéntricu
• Azerbaijani: antroposentrik
• Basque: antropozentriko
• Belarusian: антрапацэнтры́чны (antrapacentrýčny)
• Bulgarian: антропоцентри́чен (antropocentríčen)
• Catalan: antropocèntric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: antropocentrický
• Danish: antropocentrisk
• Dutch: antropocentrisch (nl)
• Esperanto: antropocentra
• Estonian: antropotsentristlik, antropotsentriline
• Finnish: ihmiskeskeinen, antroposentrinen
• French: anthropocentrique (fr)
• Galician: antropocéntrico (gl)
• Georgian: ანთროპოცენტრული (antroṗocenṭruli)
• German: anthropozentrisch (de)
• Greek: ανθρωποκεντρικός (el) (anthropokentrikós)
• Hindi: मानवकेंद्रित (mānavkendrit), मनुष्यकेंद्रित (manuṣyakendrit)
• Hebrew: אַנְתְּרוֹפּוֹצֶנְטְרִי
• Hungarian: antropocentrikus (hu)
• Ido: antropocentrala
• Indonesian: antroposentris (id)
• Interlingua: anthropocentric
• Irish: antrapalárnach
• Italian: antropocentrico (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: anthropocentricus
• Latvian: antropocentrisks
• Lithuanian: antropocentrinis, antropocentriškas
• Luxembourgish: anthropozentresch
• Macedonian: антропоцентричен (antropocentričen)
• Maltese: antropoċentriku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antroposentrisk

  Nynorsk: antroposentrisk

• Occitan: antropocentric
• Polish: antropocentryczny (pl)
• Portuguese: antropocêntrico
• Romanian: antropocentric (ro)

  Cyrillic: антропочентрик (antropocentric)

• Russian: антропоцентрический (ru) m (antropocentričeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антропоцѐнтричан

  Roman: antropocèntričan (sh)

• Slovak: antropocentrický
• Slovene: antropocentričen
• Spanish: antropocéntrico (es)
• Swedish: antropocentrisk (sv)
• Tagalog: antroposentriko
• Turkish: antroposantrik, antroposentrik
• Ukrainian: антропоцентри́чний (antropocentrýčnyj)
• Uzbek: antropotsentrik
• Yiddish: אַנטראָפּאָצענטריש (antropotsentrish)