Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism: as, anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity.
- Resembling man; approaching man in type; anthropoid: as, anthropomorphic apes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism.
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- adjective Having the form of a man
- adjective of inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human entities Given
human attributes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things
Etymologies
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Examples
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In other words this God is strongly anthropomorphic, a Greek word whose roots mean "human" and "form."
Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011
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In other words this God is strongly anthropomorphic, a Greek word whose roots mean "human" and "form."
Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011
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In other words this God is strongly anthropomorphic, a Greek word whose roots mean "human" and "form."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jeffrey Small 2011
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Our brains naturally incline towards interpreting stimuli -- rocks, ships, stuffed animals, clouds -- in anthropomorphic terms, and gods are no exception.
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions? Valerie Tarico 2010
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Our brains naturally incline towards interpreting stimuli -- rocks, ships, stuffed animals, clouds -- in anthropomorphic terms, and gods are no exception.
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions? Valerie Tarico 2010
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Remove the word anthropomorphic from your abuse, however, and what you have done is to characterize the traditional and Orthodox response to Hashem.
Carried to Orthodoxy 2010
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And as far as Ibn Hazm is concerned, does not the Quran abound in anthropomorphic expressions?
jhvh self destructs 2008
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March 6th, 2008 at 12: 23 pm aiguy: If the cause of life was intelligent, it was a completely different sort of mind than ours, and to think of it in anthropomorphic terms is certainly wrong.
The Memory Hole 2005
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Scientifically, they bear the name anthropomorphic geoglyphics.
Victorville Daily Press : Blythe Area Chamber of Commerce 2010
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(For comparison, it is not uncommon for discussions of the powers of Natural Selection to speak in anthropomorphic terms about what it designs or creates, etc.
Louises commented on the word anthropomorphic
I must have been feeling something like grief (or self pity) because I took the car's responsive steering and smell of new vinyl as anthropomorphic sympathy. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
February 29, 2012