Anthropomorphism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
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  • n. the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
  • n. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The ascription of human attributes to supernatural or divine beings; in theology, the conception or representation of God with human qualities and affections, or in a human shape.
  • n. The conception of animals, plants, or nature in general, by analogy with man: commonly implying an unscientific use of such analogy.
  • n. In pragmatistic philos., that philosophic tendency which, recognizing an absolute impossibility in the attainment by man of any conception that does not refer to human life, proposes frankly to submit to this as a decree of experience and to shape metaphysics to agreement with it. The term was first used in this sense by F. C. S. Schiller (Riddles of the Sphinx). See humanism.
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  • n. the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    representational process   
    Cross Reference
    prosopopeia   
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    dimorphism    dwarfism    isomorphism   
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    theophany    Tetragrammaton    law-breaking    clericalism    gold mine   
     
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