different between anthropomorphism vs anthropomorphic

English

Etymology

Coined in the mid-1700s. From Ancient Greek ???????? (ánthr?pos, “man, human being”) and ????? (morph?, “form, shape”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æn???p??m??f?z?m/

Noun

anthropomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropomorphisms)

1. The attribution of human characteristics and behavior to something not human. [from the mid-18th c.]
2. (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings

Usage notes

This term carries very different connotations when used in different contexts. In literature, anthropomorphism describes merely a device of fiction writing, whereas in science (particularly biology) anthropomorphism has traditionally been used pejoratively when a scientist appears to be attributing to animals characteristics that are assumed to be exclusive to human beings.

Antonyms

• dehumanization

Related terms

• anthropomorphic
• anthropomorphically

Translations

See also

• anthropomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• prosopopoeia
• zoomorphism
• kemonomimi
• nahualism

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +? -morphic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n'thr?-p?-môr?f?k
• IPA^(key): /æn???p??m??f?k/
• IPA^(key): [?æ?n?????p??m???f??k]
• Rhymes: -??(r)f?k

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a human
2. (of animals, inanimate objects, and non-human entities) Given attributes of human beings.
   • 1909, The Quarterly Review, p. 124:

     The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.

Derived terms

• anthropomorphically

Translations

See also

• anthropomorphism
• anthropologic
• theriomorphic

Anagrams

• captorhinomorph