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zoomorphize

zoomorphize verb: to endow with animal qualities.

Verb

zoomorphize (third-person singular simple present zoomorphizes, present participle zoomorphizing, simple past and past participle zoomorphized)

  1. (transitive) To endow with animal qualities.
    • This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.1964, Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution
    • So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us. It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon

Forms of zoomorphize

third-person singular presentzoomorphizes
present participlezoomorphizing
past participlezoomorphized
pastzoomorphized
alternative formzoomorphise

Questions about zoomorphize

What does zoomorphize mean?
Zoomorphize means to endow with animal qualities.
What part of speech is zoomorphize?
Zoomorphize is a verb.
What is the past tense of zoomorphize?
The past tense of zoomorphize is zoomorphized.

Words near zoomorphize in the dictionary

  1. zoomorphised
  2. zoomorphises
  3. zoomorphising
  4. zoomorphism
  5. zoomorphisms
  6. zoomorphize
  7. zoomorphized
  8. zoomorphizes
  9. zoomorphizing
  10. zoomorphological
  11. zoomorphology

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