homocentric
Americanadjective
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having a common center; concentric.
The painting was made of five homocentric circles, alternating bands of purple and orange.
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diverging from or converging to the same point.
homocentric rays.
adjective
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This is a homocentric cause: We are valuing the characteristics of animals that are similar to humans.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2017
Harari’s larger contention is that our homocentric creed, devoted to human liberty and happiness, will be destroyed by the approaching post-humanist horizon.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
And, of course, his homocentric arrogance is on comic display.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2012
Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Your intelligence tells you that such a process is not abstract reasoning, and your homocentric thesis compels you to conclude that it can be only a mechanical, instinctive process.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack
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