Eurocentric

adjective

Eu·​ro·​cen·​tric ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-trik How to pronounce Eurocentric (audio)
: centered on Europe or the Europeans
especially : reflecting a tendency to interpret the world in terms of European or Anglo-American values and experiences
Eurocentrism noun
Eurocentrist noun

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At Yale, he was evidently steeped in the identity politics and postmodernism of the 1990s and wanted to both embrace and critique the Eurocentric art history he had been taught about. Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024 Beneath this content lies an implicit suggestion that our faces must be sculpted and painted in a very particular way in order to be uniformly attractive (usually based on Eurocentric beauty standards cloaked as a hyper-symmetrical science). Maria Santa Poggi, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024 How else is the community of wine diversifying culturally and geographically, beyond the historically limited Eurocentric view? Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024 Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store' Terroir, that term for a sense of place in wine and food, is often bandied about in rarefied, Eurocentric terms. Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Eurocentric 

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Eurocentric was in 1927

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“Eurocentric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Eurocentric. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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