"the system or doctrine of having males at the center," 1915; see androcentric + -ism.
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androcentric adj.
"having males as the center," 1887, from andro- "man, male" + -centric. Popularized from 1911 by feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture."
The man was accepted as the race type without one dissentient voice; and the woman — a strange diverse creature, quite disharmonious in the accepted scheme of things — was excused and explained only as a female. [Gilman, from "The Man-Made World"]
-ism
word-forming element making nouns implying a practice, system, doctrine, etc., from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus (source also of Italian, Spanish -ismo, Dutch, German -ismus), from Greek -ismos, noun ending signifying the practice or teaching of a thing, from the stem of verbs in -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. For distinction of use, see -ity. The related Greek suffix -isma(t)- affects some forms.