The quality or state of regarding humanity as the center of existence or the most important element of reality.
From 'anthropo-' (human) + 'centric' + '-ity' (quality of). Emerged as philosophical terminology in the 18th-19th centuries to describe a worldview where humans are paramount.
The irony is that science keeps shrinking human centrality—first we learned Earth isn't the center, then our galaxy isn't special, now we're discovering we share 99% of our DNA with chimps—yet we still can't help but see everything through human eyes!
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