centrality
nounUK /sɛnˈtɹæl.ɪ.ti/ · US /sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ti/
Etymology From central + -ity.
1
The state of being central.
- As a result, the linkage between race-hate, gay-hate, and misogyny is evident (Sheffield, 1992: 389), but the centrality of race and gender in the gay and lesbian activism dealing with violence is negligible.2002, Diane Richardson, Steven Seidman, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies:
2
A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.
3
Mathematics, Sciences Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.
- Derived terms
- eigencentrality, noncentrality