anthropomorphic

WOTD – 25 February 2006    

English

Etymology

anthropo- + -morphic

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'thrə-pə-môr′fĭk
• IPA: /ænθɹɒpəˈmɔɹfɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)fɪk

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a person or a human being
2. (of inanimate objects, animals, or other 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

having the form of a person

• Catalan: antropomorf (ca), antropomòrfic (ca)
• Danish: antropomorf (da)
• Dutch: antropomorfisch (nl)
• Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi)

• Galician: antropomorfo (gl)
• German: anthropomorph (de)
• Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
• Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
• Spanish: antropomorfo (es)
• Turkish: insansı (tr)

given human attributes

• Catalan: antropomòrfic (ca)
• Danish: antropomorf (da)
• Dutch: antropomorfisch (nl)
• Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi)

• German: anthropomorph (de)
• Occitan: antropomorfic (oc)
• Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
• Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
• Spanish: antropomorfo (es)

See also

• anthropomorphism
• anthropologic
• theriomorphic