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- noun The state of being
centered . - noun in combination The state of being centered on the thing specified.
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Examples
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Contemporaneous with this type of self-centeredness is another kind — the posting of downloads of e-books on a wholesale scale by individuals.
The Impact of Technology on Reader Civility « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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And the onset of centeredness is forgiving your role models their imperfections, which is a form of forgiving yourself for needing them earlier in your life.
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Contemporaneous with this type of self-centeredness is another kind — the posting of downloads of e-books on a wholesale scale by individuals.
April « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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I don't think self-centeredness is a modern problem.
A Perpoxing Question ewe are here 2008
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In Antwerp, Royle's off-centeredness is not merely geographic.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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In Antwerp, Royle's off-centeredness is not merely geographic.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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Yes, the wild child of tennis has learned that self-centeredness is a deserted island, invincibility a mirage.
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The Dalai Lama, though, stressed that, in addition, to the above mentioned secular "virtues," ethical living ultimately requires yet something else, though it also does not require belief in God or any kind of religious notion: The absence (or, as we would say, at least the "relative" absence) of selfishness or self-centeredness, that is of "ego" -- to which the Dalai Lama has often referred as humanity's "chief demon"!
Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen: "God Talk" -- Enough Already? 2009
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For several years recently at our school, Sifu Andrew Lum, one of the world’s most accomplished practitioners of tai chi, led a weekly afterschool workshops in tai chi, an art which involves, movement, breathing, and what might be called centeredness or mental discipline.
Tai Chi, Aikido, and Writing Bruce Schauble 2007
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For several years recently at our school, Sifu Andrew Lum, one of the world’s most accomplished practitioners of tai chi, led a weekly afterschool workshops in tai chi, an art which involves, movement, breathing, and what might be called centeredness or mental discipline.
Archive 2007-11-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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