Meaning of apanthropinisation | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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”

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