apanthropinisation

名词 n.
/æpænˌθɹəʊpɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. rare,uncountable
    — 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 regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural centre.

词形变化

apanthropinization alternative

词源

Coined by C. Grant B. Allen in 1880 in volume 5 of the quarterly-review journal Mind : Ap- (from Ancient Greek ἀπ- (ap-, “off, away”)) + anthropinism (“human-focused consideration”) + -isation, noun suffix denoting the action of the suffixed verb. See also apanthropy.
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