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allocentric

Pronunciation: /ˌælə(ʊ)ˈsɛntɹɪk/

The English word “allocentric” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  2. Of spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on the external environment and independent of one's current location in it (for example, giving a direction as "north" as opposed to "right").
  3. Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.

noun

  1. A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.

Etymology

The adjective is derived from allo- (prefix meaning ‘different; other’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). Sense 3 (‘of a tourist: tending to be adventurous’) was coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972,…

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