therianthropy
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therianthropy (uncountable)
- (mythology) Shapeshifting between human and animal forms.
- (fandom slang, otherkin subculture) The characteristic of being a therianthrope; therianism.
- 2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, page 142:
- Despite occasional YouTube videos which demonstrate the activities of a 'howl' (a wolf meet), the small amount of existing research into therianthropy as a cultural phenomenon demonstrates that the communities largely exist online and rarely venture into real space.
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