Composition, optically anisotropic film, circularly polarizing plate, display device, and near-infrared absorbing coloring agent

A composition comprising:

• a liquid crystal compound or a polymer;
• and
• a near-infrared absorbing coloring agent having a structural moiety consisting of a coloring agent skeleton and a mesogenic group that is bonded to the coloring agent skeleton,
• wherein the near-infrared absorbing coloring agent satisfies the following Conditions 1 and 2:
• Condition 1:
• coordinate data of atoms in the structural moiety in a most stable molecular structure of the structural moiety of the near-infrared absorbing coloring agent are acquired by computation using a density functional theory, the coordinate data are subjected to main component analysis to determine eigenvalues, and in a case where a first eigenvalue, a second eigenvalue, and a third eigenvalue are set in descending order among the eigenvalues, an absolute value λ1 of a square root of the first eigenvalue and an absolute value λ2 of a square root of the second eigenvalue satisfy a relationship of Formula (A),
• λ2/λ1≤0.60 Formula (A)
• Condition 2:
• an angle between a direction of a transition moment of absorption of the infrared absorbing coloring agent and a direction of an eigenvector of the first eigenvalue is 75.0° or more.