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anthropomorphisms

anthropomorphisms is the plural of anthropomorphism.

Meaning of anthropomorphism

Noun

anthropomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropomorphisms)

  1. The ascribing of human characteristics and behaviors to nonhuman entities.
    • Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.2016 January 14, Stephen Ross, “What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo”, in The Guardian
  2. The ascribing of human characteristics and behaviors 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.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 222

Questions about anthropomorphisms

What is anthropomorphisms the plural of?
Anthropomorphisms is the plural of anthropomorphism.

Words near anthropomorphisms in the dictionary

  1. anthropomorphise
  2. anthropomorphised
  3. anthropomorphises
  4. anthropomorphising
  5. anthropomorphism
  6. anthropomorphisms
  7. anthropomorphist
  8. anthropomorphistic
  9. anthropomorphists
  10. anthropomorphite
  11. anthropomorphites

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