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an·thro·po·mor·phism

(ăn′thrə-pə-môr′fĭz′əm)
n.
Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
an′thro·po·mor′phic adj.
an′thro·po·mor′phi·cal·ly adv.
an′thro·po·mor′phist n.
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anthropomorphism

(ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfɪzəm)
n
the attribution of human form or behaviour to a deity, animal, etc
ˌanthropoˈmorphist n
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anthropomorphism

- The ascription of a human attribute or personality to anything impersonal or irrational.
See also related terms for personality.
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anthropomorphism

the assignment of human shape and attributes to gods, animals, etc. — anthropomorphist, n. — anthropomorphic, anthropomorphical, anthropomorphistic, adj.
See also: God and Gods
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. [画像:anthropomorphism - the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits]anthropomorphism - the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits
representational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
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Translations

anthropomorphism

[ˌænθrəʊpəˈmɔːfɪzəm] N → antropomorfismo m
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anthropomorphism

[ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːrfɪzəm] n → anthropomorphisme m
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anthropomorphism

n → Anthropomorphismus m
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References in periodicals archive ?
(4) Forgoing a more traditional critical approach to Malombra to pursue an EcoGothic trajectory, the author reproposes the novel's so-called tendency for narrative excess and anthropomorphisation, what she calls 'the wealth of detail with which Fogazzaro describes the physical world', as a functional part of Fogazzaro's poetics--the holistic attempt to connect all entities in the narrative, the animate and inanimate, the human and nonhuman, and the natural and artificial.
Introduction: the EcoGothic in the long nineteenth century
Gollum thus exemplifies the role of the synthespian "as the ultimate anthropomorphisation of a technology which actually acts only as a rapidly crunched series of binary sequences" (North 164).
"You were not so very different from a hobbit once": motion capture as an estrangement device in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy
Influenced by such films, Joyce's Ulysses (1922) would subsequently show an equivalent fascination with the play of appear ance and disappearance and with objects subject to a mixture of magical manipulation and anthropomorphisation. In turn Joyce's epic, with its straining to the limits of inter-medial style, was an influence on the animated elements of Wells's forgotten 'film novel', The King Who Was a King (1929).
'Sperrits in the furniture': Wells, Joyce and animation, before and after 1910

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