Exocentric has a number of meanings.

In linguistics, it refers to phrases and compound words which are not the same part of speech as their constituents.

For example, the word "shortcoming" is exocentric, since it is a noun, but its two constituents are an adjective and a verb.

[edit] See also

• Endocentric
• Exocentric compound
• Exocentric environment

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