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allocentric

allocentric

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Adjective

allocentric (comparative more allocentric, superlative most allocentric)

  1. Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  2. Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on the external environment and independent of one's current location in it. For example, giving the direction as "north," as opposed to "right" (egocentric).

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