Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine or opinion that man is essentially different from, and contrasted with, everything else in nature, and the end for which the natural world was made.
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Examples
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There are so many powerful arguments for that in this book (the chapter on the periodic table was ridiculous-too many superlatives to choose from), but what they call anthropism is revolutionary.
The American Culture Mike D'Virgilio 2010
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One of the greatest [surprises of nature] is that disanthropism assiduously applied has ended in reviving an anthropism that stretches back to the origin of modern science and, further still, to the origin of the universe.
The American Culture Mike D'Virgilio 2010
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Actually we are guilty of anthropism, not anthropomorphism, a guilt shared with an increasing number of scientists, for the universe and our place in the universe are guilty of anthropism as well.
The American Culture Mike D'Virgilio 2010
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