psychocentric
/ˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.
adj
Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.
noun
A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.
Example Sentences
- "I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many psychocentric influences."
- "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 knowing them."
- "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. But an account of it is not a complete psychocentric exposition until one or two gaps are filled in. […] I have chosen to illustrate the psychocentric concept by means of right rather than good merely because this concept has been taken as the more fundamental in modern ethics."
- "[T]his alienation was a result of the introduction of rational calculation and power as a socially and economically determining factor, which implied the elimination of the Christian (and older) psychocentric traditions, faiths, social and personal relations."
- "But there is a fundamental difference between Greek and Gothic sculpture, despite the very similar treatment of draperies and the human form. To the Greeks, the face was merely part of the body. The Gothic makes it the 'window of the soul'. Gothic faces are psychocentric, dominated by the soul, which speaks through the eye."
- "In most psychocentric religions, the cosmic forces or gods not only create and control physical processes, they are often embodied themselves; in physiocentric religions the cosmic forces, however mindless, create human consciousness and determine human will."
Etymology
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.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
- British English: /ˌsaɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛntɹɪk/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
allocentric
midcentric