historicentric

English

Etymology

From history +‎ -centric.

Adjective

historicentric (comparative more historicentric, superlative most historicentric)

  1. Focused or based on history.
    • 1994, “Metropolis”, in The New Yorker, volume 70, numbers 23-30, page 12:
      Byard was shuffling through the treasure chest of jazz tradition before most of today's historicentric neo-cons were born.
    • 2012, Piotr Stolarski ·, After History, page 19:
      What is coming in place of this "old culture" of humanistic historicentric education?
    • 2016, Kalissa Alexeyeff, John Taylor, Touring Pacific Cultures, page 233:
      Watch out for historicentric conclusions based on boiling (angry) blood in my veins.
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