Eurocentric

American  

[yoor-uh-sen-trik, yur-] / ˌyʊər əˈsɛn trɪk, ˌyɜr- /

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

Etymology

Origin of Eurocentric

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

Example Sentences

With the passage of centuries, the Eurocentric accounts that depicted Cortés as a heroic “white savior” and Moctezuma as a cowardly heathen have been eclipsed.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

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

“It was a flashpoint. The story goes: The Biennale had been a Eurocentric party, and this was the first time an outsider broke the code.”

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024

As far as Eurocentric science is concerned, however, our American chestnut’s official name is Castanea dentata.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023

Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond