Definitions for androcentric

androcentric an·dro·cen·tric

Spelling: [an-druh-sen-trik]
IPA: /ˌæn drəˈsɛn trɪk/

Androcentric is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1152 anagrams from letters in androcentric (accdeinnorrt).

Definitions for androcentric

adjective

  1. centered on, emphasizing, or dominated by males or masculine interests:

Origin of androcentric

1900-05; andro- + -centric, on the model of ethnocentric

Examples for androcentric

Our androcentric culture is so shown to have been, and still to be, a masculine culture in excess, and therefore undesirable.

We have been much misled as to warfare by our androcentric literature.

During this period we have had almost universally what is here called an androcentric Culture.

All this is as open to the woman as the man by nature, but has been denied her during our androcentric culture.

This is a peculiarly happy and condensed expression of the relative position of women during our androcentric culture.

Some read the genderless world as androcentric, because the generic human being it affirmed had a rather masculine bent.

It would be wholly impossible if we were never to outgrow our androcentric culture.

Let us now see what part in this undesirable outcome is due to our androcentric Culture.

Never has it occurred to the androcentric mind to conceive of such a thing as being too masculine.

This ultra littleness and ultra femaleness has been demanded and produced by our androcentric Culture.

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