Therianthropy

//ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Shapeshifting between human and animal forms. uncountable
  2. 2
    The characteristic of being a therianthrope; therianism. uncountable

    "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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"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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