androcentric

[ an-druh-sen-trik ]

adjective

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

   an androcentric society; an androcentric religion.

androcentric

/ ˌændrəʊˈsɛntrɪk /

adjective

1. having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary

Derived Forms

• ˌandroˈcentrism, noun

Other Words From

• andro·centrism noun
• andro·centrist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of androcentric¹

1900–05; andro- + -centric, on the model of ethnocentric ( def )

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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Ancestor worship, that gross reversal of all natural law, is of wholly androcentric origin.

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

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