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Anthropomorphism   Listen
noun
Anthropomorphism  n.  
1.
The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
2.
The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.





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"Anthropomorphism" Quotes from Famous Books



... gravitation came to dispense with these celestial steersmen, there was begotten a belief, less gross than its parent, but partaking of the same essential nature, that the planets were originally launched into their orbits by the Creator's hand. Evidently, though much refined, the anthropomorphism of the current hypothesis is inherited from the aboriginal anthropomorphism, which described gods as ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... and doubtful observations, there is no lack of verified and authentic material, but it still remains to interpret them. As soon as we begin to conjecture we know how difficult it is to divest ourselves of all anthropomorphism. ...
— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot


Words linked to "Anthropomorphism" :   anthropomorphize, theanthropism, representational process


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