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eurocentrism

noun

eurocentrism is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Eurocentrism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-C-E-N-T-R-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does eurocentrism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Eurocentrism.

noun

as Eurocentrism
  1. 1

    The practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture.

  2. 2

    European ethnocentrism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce eurocentrism?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Eurocentrism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is eurocentrism?

Eurocentrism appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Eurocentrism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense practice of viewing the world from a European perspective:

LanguageWords
Frencheuropéocentrisme, eurocentrisme
GermanEurozentrismus
Portugueseeurocentrismo
Spanisheurocentrismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does eurocentrism come from?

Back-formation from eurocentric. Superficially euro- + -centrism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).