MEANING
1. The importance of something as a main part, focus, or organizing element of a larger whole.
2. The quality of occupying a central position within a space, structure, or network.
Use it for
emphasizing an idea’s organizing role in an argument; identifying a factor treated as central to an explanation; distinguishing structural importance from frequent mentionSeparates importance to an argument from position within a spatial or relational structure. Academic functions: Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- the centrality of a concept
- the centrality of language
- conceptual centrality
On the page
The reading emphasizes the centrality of memory to the novel’s account of identity.
The centrality of trust in the framework does not establish that trust causes every observed outcome.
The paper distinguishes the district’s spatial centrality from its political influence.
Claims about network centrality should explain how a central position is defined.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- centrality
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. Centralities occurs chiefly for distinct network measures or types of central position. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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