omphalism

English

Etymology

From omphal- +‎ -ism.

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.
   • 2009, William Powell, “Creation Theology”, in Philosophy of Scientific Creationism, New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House, page 224:

     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, and so forth.