[f. Gr. ἀν priv. + ἀνθρωπισμ-ός humanity, f. ἄνθρωπ-ός man.] A lack of fellow-feeling or humanity.
1882. Seeley, Nat. Relig., 50. Science cannot easily destroy our feeling for human beings . If it were otherwise we should want a wordAnanthropismto answer to Atheism.