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anthropomorphism

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16 lettersPronunciation /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/Part of speech nounSorted ahhimmnooopprrstStarts with AEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits

Word origin

Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) and μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -morphism.

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  • Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.
  • 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.

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