different between humanity vs apanthropinisation

English

Etymology

From Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye, from Old French humanité, from Latin h?m?nit?s (“human nature, humanity, also humane conduct”), from h?m?nus (“human, humane”); see human, humane.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /hju?mæn?ti/, [hju?mæn??i]

Noun

humanity (countable and uncountable, plural humanities)

1. Mankind; human beings as a group.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:humankind

2. The human condition or nature.
3. The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!”

   Synonym: humaneness

4. Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.

Derived terms

• humanitarian
• humanitarianism

Related terms

• humanities
• humane

Translations

Further reading

• humanity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• humanity at OneLook Dictionary Search
• humanity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "humanity" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 148.
• humanity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• humanity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• apanthropinization

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æpæn?????p?na??ze???n/

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.
   • 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 scant little alteration, on page 292 of The Academy [? 18, 1880])

     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.

   • 1881, Jan.: The Popular Science Monthly, volume 18 (1880–1881), page 344 ^? (D. Appleton); quoting verbatim, but not literatim, the text of the first occurrence in Mind [1880] hereinbefore (minor adjustments to Americanise the spelling have been made)

     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.

   • 2005, Mar.: Anne-Julia Zwierlein (editor), Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, page 114 (Anthem Press; ?ISBN, 978?1843311607)

     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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