Usually means: Oriented toward others or environment.
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  1. allocentric: Merriam-Webster
  2. allocentric: Wiktionary
  3. allocentric: Dictionary.com
  4. allocentric: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  1. Allocentric: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (allocentric)

adjective:  Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
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").
adjective:  (also tourism) Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.
noun:  (psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.

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