homocentric

American  

[hoh-muh-sen-trik, hom-uh-] / ˌhoʊ məˈsɛn trɪk, ˌhɒm ə- /

Also homocentrical

adjective

1. having a common center; concentric.

   The painting was made of five homocentric circles, alternating bands of purple and orange.

2. diverging from or converging to the same point.

   homocentric rays.

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homocentric British  

/ ˌhɒm-, ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛntrɪk /

adjective

1. having the same centre; concentric

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Other Word Forms

• homocentrically adverb
• homocentricity noun

Etymology

Origin of homocentric

First recorded in 1615–25; homo- + -centric

Example Sentences

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

President Roosevelt and John Burroughs, in advancing such a view, are homocentric in the same fashion that the scholastics of earlier and darker centuries were homocentric. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack