allocentric

Meanings

Adjective

• Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
• 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").
• Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.

Noun

• A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.

Origin

• . Sense 3 (‘of a tourist: tending to be adventurous’) was in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974.
• The noun is probably derived from the adjective.