anthropomorphism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) and μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -morphism.
Inflected forms:
form: anthropomorphisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics and behaviors to entities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.
gloss: The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics to divine nonhuman entities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Antonyms: dehumanization
Related words: anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
zoomorphism
kemonomimi
nahualism
Derived words: anthropomorphist
antianthropomorphism
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Albanian
word: antropomorfizëm
lang: Arabic
word: تَجْسِيم
roman: tajsīm
lang: Armenian
word: անթրոպոմորֆիզմ
roman: antʻropomorfizm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: antropomorfizm
lang: Basque
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Belarusian
word: антрапамарфі́зм
roman: antrapamarfízm
lang: Breton
word: denheñvelegezh
lang: Bulgarian
word: антропоморфизъм
roman: antropomorfizǎm
lang: Catalan
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擬人論 /拟人论
roman: nǐrénlùn
lang: Czech
word: antropomorfismus
lang: Danish
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Dutch
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Esperanto
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Estonian
word: antropomorfism
lang: Finnish
word: antropomorfismi
lang: Finnish
word: ihmisenkaltaistaminen
lang: French
word: anthropomorphisme
lang: Galician
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Georgian
word: ანთროპომორფიზმი
roman: antroṗomorpizmi
lang: German
word: Anthropomorphismus
lang: German
word: Anthropomorfismus
lang: Greek
word: ανθρωπομορφισμός
roman: anthropomorfismós
lang: Hebrew
word: האנשה
roman: ha'anasha
lang: Hungarian
word: antropomorfizmus
lang: Icelandic
word: manngervastefna
lang: Ido
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Indonesian
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Interlingua
word: anthropomorphismo
lang: Irish
word: antrapamorfachas
lang: Italian
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Japanese
word: 擬人化
roman: gijinka
lang: Japanese
word: 擬人観
roman: gijinkan
lang: Kazakh
word: антропоморфизм
roman: antropomorfizm
lang: Korean
word: 의인화
roman: uiinhwa
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: antropomorfîzm
lang: Kyrgyz
word: антропоморфизм
roman: antropomorfizm
lang: Latvian
word: antropomorfisms
lang: Limburgish
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Lithuanian
word: antropomorfizmas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Anthropomorphismus
lang: Malay
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Manx
word: antrapoamorfaght
lang: Mongolian
word: антропоморфизм
roman: antropomorfizm
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Occitan
word: antropomorfisme
lang: Persian
word: انسانانگاری
lang: Polish
word: antropomorfizm
lang: Polish
word: antropomorfizacja
lang: Portuguese
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Romanian
word: antropomorfism
lang: Russian
word: антропоморфи́зм
roman: antropomorfízm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: антропоморфѝзам
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: antropomorfìzam
lang: Slovak
word: antropomorfizmus
lang: Slovene
word: antropomorfizem
lang: Spanish
word: antropomorfismo
lang: Swahili
word: tashihisi
lang: Swedish
word: antropomorfism
lang: Tajik
word: αнтропоморфи́зм
roman: αntropomorfízm
lang: Tamil
word: மாந்தவுருவகம்
roman: māntavuruvakam
lang: Thai
word: มานุษยรูปนิยม
roman: maa-nút'y rôop ní-yom
lang: Turkish
word: insan biçimcilik
lang: Ukrainian
word: антропоморфізм
roman: antropomorfizm
lang: Uzbek
word: antropomorfizm
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhân hóa