exocentric (0 synonym found)

We don't have synonyms for exocentric yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are eccentric, egocentric and geocentric.


We don't have any synonyms for exocentric yet.

Did you mean…

Think exocentric belongs in the thesaurus? Recommend it and we'll take a look.


Definition of exocentric:

(adj) : Focused or centered on something outside of itself.
(adj) : (grammar, of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words.
(adj) : (semantics, of or relating to a compound term) Not having the same semantic referent as the semantic referent of any of its constituent parts.
(n) : (grammar) An exocentric compound.

Definition of exocentric:

(adj) : Focused or centered on something outside of itself.
(adj) : (grammar, of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words.
(adj) : (semantics, of or relating to a compound term) Not having the same semantic referent as the semantic referent of any of its constituent parts.
(n) : (grammar) An exocentric compound.

Back to Top