Psychocentric

Quick meaning: Psychocentric is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.

Meaning

(philosophy) Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.

More Meanings

1. (psychology, tourism) Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.
2. (psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.

Example Sentences

I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many psychocentric influences.

[T]his alienation was a result of the introduction of rational calculation and power as a socially and economically determining factor, which implied the elimination of the Christian (and older) psychocentric traditions, faiths, social and personal relations.

In most psychocentric religions, the cosmic forces or gods not only create and control physical processes, they are often embodied themselves; in physiocentric religions the cosmic forces, however mindless, create human consciousness and determine human will.

For the issue between realism and subjectivism does not arise from a psychocentric predicament—a difficulty of conceiving of objects apart from any consciousness—but rather from the much more radical 'ego-centric predicament,' the difficulty of conceiving known things to exist independently of my knowing them.

Word Forms

• psychocentrics

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psychophysical, autopsychic, inner, psychosonic, mind-body, eupsychian.

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