centrality

From central +‎ -ity.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ɪ.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ti/, [sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /senˈtɹæl.ə.ti/, [senˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

centrality (countable and uncountable, plural centralities)

1. The state of being central.
   • 2002, Diane Richardson, Steven Seidman, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies:

     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.

2. A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.
3. (mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

• noncentrality