Meanings
suffix
- A focus on, or belief in the superiority of, one culture, people, place, or other thing.
Origin
Back-formation from -centric.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans -sentrisme
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Basque -zentrismo
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Bulgarian -центри́зъм
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Catalan -centrisme
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Czech -centrismus
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Danish -centrisme
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Dutch -centrisme
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Esperanto -centrismo
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Estonian -tsentrism
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Finnish -sentrismi
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French -centrisme
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German -zentrismus
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Greek -κεντρισμός
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Hebrew ־צנטריזם
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Hungarian -centrizmus
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Indonesian -sentrisme
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Italian -centrismo
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Latin -centrismus
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Latvian -centrisms
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Lithuanian -centrizmas
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Norwegian Bokmål -sentrisme
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Polish -centryzm
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Portuguese -centrismo
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Romanian -centrism, -чентрисм
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Russian -центри́зм
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Slovak -centrizmus
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Spanish -centrismo
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Swedish -centrism
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Tagalog -sentrismo
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Turkish -santrizm, -sentrizm
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Ukrainian -центри́зм
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Yiddish ־צענטריזם
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Cite this entry
APA
-centrism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-centrism
MLA
“-centrism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-centrism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-centrism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-centrism.
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