Centric vs Femicentric - What's the difference?
centric | femicentric |
Being in the centre; central.
* 1661 , John Donne, "Elegie XVIII":
(physics) Pertaining to a nerve centre.
(of diatoms) Being a member of the class Centrales
woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)
* 1986 , International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores , Issue 2
* 1997 , Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements , page 66
* 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa , page 4
As adjectives the difference between centric and femicentric
is that centric is central while femicentric is woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric).centric
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* (obsolete except archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- So we her ayres contemplate, words and heart, / And virtues; but we love the Centrique part.
femicentric
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* femi-centricAdjective
(en adjective)- It is an order which is ‘femi-centric ’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.
- REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric , and so on
- The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.