ethnocentricity

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English

Noun

ethnocentricity (countable and uncountable, plural ethnocentricities)

  1. The quality of being ethnocentric.

References

  • "Damian Green conflates - but with the enthnocentricity typical of so many Conservative theories - two distinct ideas: that forced marriages are wrong; and that holding them to be wrong is a peculiarly British virtue." - British virtues, The Week, 25 August 2007, 628, 25.