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单词 autocentric
释义 autocentric, a.|ɔːtəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. auto-1, after egocentric a.]
Centred in the self; making oneself the centre (see quot. 1889). Hence autoˈcentrism, the possession of an autocentric attitude or outlook.
a1866J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 189 Becoming cosmocentric instead of autocentric in our knowledge.1889J. Venn Empirical Logic xxv. 572, I should be inclined to mark the above distinction by the words autocentric and coinocentric..the distinction between two attitudes which we may adopt in our practice. In the one case the agent is supposed to make himself the centre of his own speculation and consequent action.1927T. Burrow Social Basis of Consciousness ii. vii. 188 The type of individual who upon the initial stimulus to defence has recourse to a tactic of unconditional retreat..is the autocentric individual.1931K. E. Kirk Vision of God 489 As long ago as 1906, he had fixed upon ‘autocentrism’ as the clue to the complexities of Newman's character.
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