Eurocentric

American  

[yoor-uh-sen-trik, yur-] / ˌjʊər əˈsɛn trɪk, ˌjɜr- /

adjective

1. centered on Europe and Europeans.

   They have offered insightful but nonetheless Eurocentric analyses of European travelers, losing sight of the larger global context of travel.

2. considering Europe and Europeans as focal to world culture, history, economics, etc., or viewing everything through the lens of European values, attitudes, and interests.

   The style represented a celebration of Black beauty and a repudiation of Eurocentric beauty standards.

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Eurocentric British  

/ ˌjʊərəʊˈsɛntrɪk /

adjective

1. chiefly concerned with or concentrating on Europe and European culture

   the Eurocentric curriculum

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Other Word Forms

• Eurocentrism
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of Eurocentric

First recorded in 1960–65; Euro- + -centric

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Example Sentences

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Eurocentric

What Mr. Salonen and company promised and, in fact, delivered was a roster of works that embodied a certain Ojai ideal—modern music that is aesthetically rigorous and largely Eurocentric, formal and, at least overtly, apolitical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Eurocentric and Western beauty standards, further reinforced by 90s diet culture, also promoted skinny as the new sexy.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings combine Eurocentric artistic traditions with African diasporic cosmologies as a way to course-correct the historical erasure of Black images from classical narratives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

DEI has even forced the beauty industry, which has historically focused on products to suit Eurocentric complexions, to acknowledge that people of color buy makeup, too.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

I think Overbearing Eurocentric Patriarchs would be perfect, but I don’t suggest it.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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