psychocentric

Meanings

Adjective

• Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.
• Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.

Noun

• A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.

Origin

• . The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
• Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were 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: see the quotation.