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anthropomorphism
[ an-thruh-puh-mawr-fiz-uhm ]
anthropomorphism
/ ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfɪzəm /
noun
- the attribution of human form or behaviour to a deity, animal, etc
anthropomorphism
- The attributing of human characteristics and purposes to inanimate objects, animals, plants, or other natural phenomena, or to God. To describe a rushing river as “angry” is to anthropomorphize it.
Derived Forms
- ˌanthropoˈmorphist, noun
Other Words From
- anthro·po·morphist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of anthropomorphism1
Example Sentences
Ball’s exploration of the minds of others negotiates this path between solipsism—the skeptical philosophical position that none of us can know anything beyond our own mind—and anthropomorphism, which naively projects our own qualities onto nonhumans.
Directed by Drew Xanthopoulos, Fathom portrays humpbacks and other whales as complex, highly social beings without overstated anthropomorphism.
In anthropomorphism there are many errors, but there is one truth.
Its anthropomorphism is only, to unobservant minds, less apparent.
In contrast with these childish pieces of anthropomorphism, we have the famous and sublime speculations of an often-quoted hymn.
Having disposed of crude anthropomorphism we must now take up the problem of attributes, which endangers the unity.
The barbarian culture shows sportsmanship, status, and anthropomorphism.
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