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Centricity vs Centric - What's the difference?

centricity | centric |

As a noun centricity

is the state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

As an adjective centric is

central.

centricity

English

Noun

(centricities)
  • The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
    • (Webster 1913)

    centric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete except archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the centre; central.
  • * 1661 , John Donne, "Elegie XVIII":
    • So we her ayres contemplate, words and heart, / And virtues; but we love the Centrique part.
  • (physics) Pertaining to a nerve centre.
  • (of diatoms) Being a member of the class Centrales

    • Related terms

    * central