apanthropinisation

Noun. (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.“apanthropinization” listed [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QHccAAAAMAAJ&q=apanthropinization&dq=apanthropinization&ei=HdVWScTmHqKIyASJ8aiDBw&pgis=1 on pages 50–51] of Joseph Twadell Shipley’s ''Dictionary of Early English'' ('''1955'''; Philosophical Library).

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