English Explanatory Dictionary

anthropomorphism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics and behaviors to entities.
  2. The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics to divine nonhuman entities.

Pronunciation

/ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-anthropomorphism.wav

Word forms

anthropomorphism anthropomorphisms

Etymology

Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) and μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -morphism.

Antonyms

dehumanization

Related words

anthropomorphic anthropomorphically zoomorphism kemonomimi nahualism

Derived words

anthropomorphist antianthropomorphism

Translations

Afrikaans: antropomorfisme Albanian: antropomorfizëm Arabic: تَجْسِيم Armenian: անթրոպոմորֆիզմ Azerbaijani: antropomorfizm Basque: antropomorfismo Belarusian: антрапамарфі́зм Breton: denheñvelegezh Bulgarian: антропоморфизъм Catalan: antropomorfisme Chinese Mandarin: 擬人論 /拟人论 Czech: antropomorfismus Danish: antropomorfisme Dutch: antropomorfisme Esperanto: antropomorfismo Estonian: antropomorfism Finnish: antropomorfismi Finnish: ihmisenkaltaistaminen French: anthropomorphisme Galician: antropomorfismo Georgian: ანთროპომორფიზმი German: Anthropomorphismus German: Anthropomorfismus Greek: ανθρωπομορφισμός Hebrew: האנשה Hungarian: antropomorfizmus Icelandic: manngervastefna Ido: antropomorfismo Indonesian: antropomorfisme Interlingua: anthropomorphismo Irish: antrapamorfachas Italian: antropomorfismo Japanese: 擬人化 Japanese: 擬人観 Kazakh: антропоморфизм Korean: 의인화 Northern Kurdish: antropomorfîzm Kyrgyz: антропоморфизм Latvian: antropomorfisms Limburgish: antropomorfisme Lithuanian: antropomorfizmas Luxembourgish: Anthropomorphismus Malay: antropomorfisme
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