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apanthropinization

apanthropinization is the alternative spelling of apanthropinisation.

Meaning of apanthropinisation

Noun

apanthropinisation (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.
    • In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an apanthropinisation (I apologise for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual...1880, Oct.: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen [contrib.] and George Croom Robertson (editor) of the Mind Association, Mind, volume 5 (№ 20), page 451 ^〃 (Williams and Norgate) · (also quoted, with...

Questions about apanthropinization

What is apanthropinization the alternative spelling of?
Apanthropinization is the alternative spelling of apanthropinisation.

Words near apanthropinization in the dictionary

  1. Apangi
  2. apans
  3. apansporoblastic
  4. apanthropia
  5. apanthropinisation
  6. apanthropinization
  7. apanthropinizations
  8. apanthropy
  9. Apanto
  10. apantomancy
  11. APAP

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