centrality

[ sen-tral-i-tee ]

noun

, plural cen·tral·i·ties.

1. a central position or state:

   the centrality of the sun.

2. a vital, critical, or important position:

   the centrality of education to modern civilization.

centrality

/ sɛnˈtrælɪtɪ /

noun

1. the state or condition of being central

Word History and Origins

Origin of centrality¹

First recorded in 1640–50; central ¹ + -ity

Example Sentences

Along the way, people have not exactly been receptive to these blows to our home planet’s centrality.

From Science News

Recently, a controversy over “critical race theory” has ignited public debate about the centrality of race to American history.

From Time

The centrality of emotion in the life of the mind and what lies behind emotion is what Freud called “drive.”

From Nautilus

Using BERT representations, DeepCT assigns an importance score to words based on their centrality and importance to the topic given their context in a passage.

From Search Engine Land

They also used payroll, revenue, and employment data from US Census Bureau to rate the centrality of different industries to the economy, as well as a survey of 1,099 people to gauge public preferences.

From MIT Technology Review

Due to its centrality, the Salt Lake field plays an outsized role in terms of strange petroleum events in the city.

From The Daily Beast

How important is that sense of cultural centrality to you—the idea of being where the conversation is?

From The Daily Beast

Beyond this, we fail to see the centrality of economic growth in Democratic messaging.

From The Daily Beast

From time to time, we hear denials of the centrality of slavery to the Civil War.

From The Daily Beast

Both of these leaders have repeatedly emphasized the centrality of “Jewish values.”

From The Daily Beast

She did but inevitably represent what the whole world around her asserted: the life-centrality of woman.

From Project Gutenberg

It was something quite different from happiness: an alert enjoyment of rest, an intense and satisfying sense of centrality.

From Project Gutenberg

The organic centrality of the whole body is of first importance.

From Project Gutenberg

Design experiences submit the centrality of the writer to reassessment.

From Project Gutenberg

Like the human body itself, social life must become as complex as it can without losing its centrality.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• equilibrium
• harmony
• rhythm
• similarity