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UK
/ˈænθɹəpˌɒmɔːfˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits
How To Use anthropomorphism In A Sentence
- These shifts have helped create what experts say is one of the most prominent attitudinal drivers of pet industry growth: the increasing anthropomorphism, or humanization, of pets by their owners.
- Lauren Child's spiky, sophisticated artwork offers an edgy alternative to the cosy anthropomorphism with which publishers tend to pad their lists.
- But "anthropomorphism" is not just a trope but an identification on the level of substance. Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.
- And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
- Native Americans also felt a special kinship with bears because of many shared morphological and behavioral characteristics, which lent the bears more readily to anthropomorphism than other animals.
- Their religion, which exhibits features of animism, animalism, anthropomorphism, nature-worship, fetishism, ancestor-worship is under the control, guidance and supervision of the village.
- And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die. CHAPTER IX
- One can validly juxtapose here De Man's conclusion about the occurrence of the word anthropomorphism in Nietzsche's list: "The apparent enumeration is in fact a foreclosure" (241). Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.
- His anthropomorphism continues as he elegantly notes the ‘retro quality of the sexual politics’ of the breeding industry that makes the males the valuable ones.
- His political conclusion repudiates the crude nationalism, a form of anthropomorphism when all is said and done, which projects upon regional botany its vainglorious xenophobia.