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March 2007: ANTHROPOMORPHIC
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Adjective: suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things
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Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthrOpomorphos, from anthrOp – + – morphos – morphous
- described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes <anthropomorphic deities>
- ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things <anthropomorphic supernaturalism>
– anthropomorphically: adverb
Merrium-Webster Online
- ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity.
- resembling or made to resemble a human form: an anthropomorphic carving.
Also, an•thro•po•mor•phous
[Origin: 1820–30; anthropo –+ –morphic]
Related forms: an•thro•po•mor•phi•cal•ly, an•thro•po•mor•phous•ly, adverb
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