Standard Lemma guide

-centrism

suffix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɛntrɪzm/
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suffix

Meaning 1

A focus on, or belief in the superiority of, one culture, people, place, or other thing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Back-formation from -centric.

Across languages

Translations

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: -sentrisme — Translations
  • Albanian: -centrizëm — Translations
  • Aragonese: -centrismo — Translations
  • Armenian: -ցենտրիզմ (-cʻentrizm) — Translations
  • Asturian: -centrismu — Translations
  • Azerbaijani: -sentrizm — Translations
  • Basque: -zentrismo — Translations
  • Belarusian: -цэнтры́зм (-centrýzm) — Translations
  • Bulgarian: -центри́зъм (-centrízǎm) — Translations
  • Catalan: -centrisme — Translations
  • Czech: -centrismus — Translations
  • Danish: -centrisme — Translations
  • Dutch: -centrisme — Translations
  • Esperanto: -centrismo — Translations
  • Estonian: -tsentrism — Translations
  • Finnish: -sentrismi — Translations
  • French: -centrisme — Translations
  • Galician: -centrismo — Translations
  • Georgian: -ცენტრიზმი (-cenṭrizmi) — Translations
  • German: -zentrismus — Translations
  • Greek: -κεντρισμός (-kentrismós) — Translations
  • Hebrew: ־צנטריזם — Translations
  • Hungarian: -centrizmus — Translations
  • Ido: -centrismo — Translations
  • Indonesian: -sentrisme — Translations
  • Interlingua: -centrismo — Translations
  • Italian: -centrismo — Translations
  • Kazakh: -центризм (-sentrizm) — Translations
  • Kyrgyz: -центризм (-tsentrizm) — Translations
  • Latin: -centrismus — Translations
  • Latvian: -centrisms — Translations
  • Lithuanian: -centrizmas — Translations
  • Luxembourgish: -zentrismus — Translations
  • Macedonian: -центризам (-centrizam) — Translations
  • Maltese: -ċentriżmu — Translations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -sentrisme — Translations
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: -sentrisme — Translations
  • Occitan: -centrisme — Translations
  • Polish: -centryzm — Translations
  • Portuguese: -centrismo — Translations
  • Romanian: -centrism — Translations
  • Romanian: -чентрисм (-centrism) — Translations
  • Russian: -центри́зм (-centrízm) — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: -центрѝзам — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: -centrìzam — Translations
  • Slovak: -centrizmus — Translations
  • Slovene: -centrizem — Translations
  • Spanish: -centrismo — Translations
  • Swedish: -centrism — Translations
  • Tagalog: -sentrismo — Translations
  • Turkish: -santrizm — Translations
  • Turkish: -sentrizm — Translations
  • Ukrainian: -центри́зм (-centrýzm) — Translations
  • Uzbek: -tsentrizm — Translations
  • Yiddish: ־צענטריזם (-tsentrizm) — Translations