People who do not have children tend to anthropomorphize their pets.
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Anthropomorphize
//ˌanθɹəpəˈmɔːfʌɪz//
Synonyms for "anthropomorphize" (3 found)
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19 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 人格化 verb (attribute human qualities)
- 擬人化 /拟人化 verb (attribute human qualities)
Dutch
1 entries- antropomorfiseren verb (attribute human qualities)
Finnish
2 entries- antropomorfisoida verb (attribute human qualities)
- ihmisenkaltaistaa verb (attribute human qualities)
French
1 entries- anthropomorphiser verb (attribute human qualities)
German
2 entries- anthropomorphisieren verb (attribute human qualities)
- vermenschlichen verb (attribute human qualities)
Greek
1 entries- ανθρωπομορφίζω verb (attribute human qualities)
Hebrew
1 entries- הֶאֱנִישׁ verb (attribute human qualities)
Italian
1 entries- antropomorfizzare verb (attribute human qualities)
Polish
1 entries- antropomorfizować verb (to attribute human-like characteristics to something that is non-human)
Portuguese
1 entries- antropomorfizar verb (attribute human qualities)
Russian
4 entries- очелове́чивать verb (attribute human qualities)
- очелове́чивать verb (to attribute human-like characteristics to something that is non-human)
- очелове́чить verb (attribute human qualities)
- очелове́чить verb (to attribute human-like characteristics to something that is non-human)
Spanish
1 entries- antropomorfizar verb (attribute human qualities)
Ukrainian
1 entries- антропоморфізува́ти verb (to attribute human-like characteristics to something that is non-human)
Sample sentences
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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