EGAVE

allocentric

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective 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. adjective Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.
  4. noun A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.

Similar words

civicminded civic-minded communitarian inward-looking ecocentric alterocentric self-regarding personocentric individualistic sociocentric

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spatial perception and reference frame space representations mode coding representation

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