People who do not have children tend to anthropomorphize their pets.
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Anthropomorphize
/ˌanθɹəpəˈmɔːfʌɪz/
Synonyms for "anthropomorphize" (9 found)
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biologize findings
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But Cicero does not seem even to have had a religious sentiment to cover the nakedness of his political opportunism. Not only does he in the Tusculan Disputations put aside in the Platonic fashion all the Homeric tales which anthropomorphize and discredit the gods; but in his treatise On Divination he shows an absolute disbelief in all the recognized practices, including the augury which he himself officially practised; and his sole excuse is that they are to be retained “on account of popular opinion and of their great public utility.”
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Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]
Source: wiktionary
A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse.
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