Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

apanthropinisation

/æpænˌθɹəʊpɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: apan-thropin-i-sa-tion
IPA: /æpænˌθɹəʊpɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

25

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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 apanthropinization (I apologize 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 center."
"From this early, ‘anthropinistic’ stage, at which all aesthetic feeling is ‘gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman’, human aesthetic feeling gradually evolves in a process of apanthropinization, ‘a gradual regression or concentric widening of aesthetic feeling around this fixed point’,⁵⁹ and advances to the appreciation of beauty in nature.⁶⁰"

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ἀπ-

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /æpænˌθɹəʊpɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

apanthropinization (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce apanthropinisation?: The recorded pronunciation is /æpænˌθɹəʊpɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/.
What does apanthropinisation mean?: 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.
Where does apanthropinisation come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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