centrality
[sen-tral-i-tee]
- a central position or state: the centrality of the sun.
- a vital, critical, or important position: the centrality of education to modern civilization.
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Origin of centrality
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Contemporary Examples
Due to its centrality, the Salt Lake field plays an outsized role in terms of strange petroleum events in the city.
Beyond this, we fail to see the centrality of economic growth in Democratic messaging.
From time to time, we hear denials of the centrality of slavery to the Civil War.
Both of these leaders have repeatedly emphasized the centrality of “Jewish values.”
Given the centrality of Egypt to the future of the Middle East, this makes no strategic sense.
Historical Examples
Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Selected for their centrality, they were furnished in a very miscellaneous way.
The Island PhariseesJohn Galsworthy
The path of centrality will then cross in the equatorial region.
It makes much, of course, of the centrality of mind both in well-being and pain.
Modern Religious Cults and MovementsGaius Glenn Atkins
We should like, vulgarly, to rejoice and say that the new Theory of Relativity releases us from the old obligation of centrality.
Fantasia of the UnconsciousD. H. Lawrence
centrality
- the state or condition of being central
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Word Origin and History for centrality
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