Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

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The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

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(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 on pages 50–51 of Joseph Twadell Shipley’s Dictionary of Early English (1955 ; Philosophical Library)

* 1880, Oct.: , Mind'', volume 5 (? 20), page 451] ^{[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F_0EAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 ?]} (Williams and Norgate) · (also quoted, with scant little alteration, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3pINAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 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.: '', volume 18 (1880–1881), page 344] ^{[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aaMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=apanthropinization&ei=HdVWScTmHqKIyASJ8aiDBw ?]} (D. Appleton); quoting ''verbatim'', but not ''literatim'', the text of the first occurrence in ''Mind [1880] [[#Quotations, 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] ([http://www.anthempress.com/product_info.php?&products_id=143&osCsid= Anthem Press; ISBN 1843311607, 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