anthropomorphism
noun/ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/US
Etymology
Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) and μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -morphism.
- derived from ἄνθρωπος
Definitions
The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics and behaviors to entities.
- Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.
The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics to divine nonhuman entities.
- Only an over-idealized Hellenism may properly be acutely sensitive to the anthropomorphism of gods, when, in speech and action, they display their human qualities.
The neighborhood
- antonymdehumanization
- neighboranthropomorphic
- neighboranthropomorphically
- neighborzoomorphism
- neighborkemonomimi
- neighbornahualism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for anthropomorphism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA