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Meaning of "anthropomorphosis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS

anthropomorphosis  [ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfəsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anthropomorphosis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

anthropomorphosis

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism, or personification, is attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Examples include depicting deities with human form and ascribing human emotions or motives to forces of nature, such as hurricanes or earthquakes. Anthropomorphism has ancient roots as a literary device in storytelling, and also in art. Most cultures have traditional fables with anthropomorphised animals, which can stand or talk like humans, as characters. The word anthropomorphism was first used in the mid-1700s. The word derives from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, "human", and μορφή, "shape" or "form".

Definition of anthropomorphosis in the English dictionary

The definition of anthropomorphosis in the dictionary is transformation into human form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS


amebiasis
əmiːˈbaɪəsɪs
anamorphosis
ˌænəˈmɔːfəsɪs
apophasis
əˈpɒfəsɪs
candidiasis
ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs
diocese
ˈdaɪəsɪs
elephantiasis
ˌɛlɪfənˈtaɪəsɪs
emphasis
ˈɛmfəsɪs
giardiasis
ˌdʒaɪɑːˈdaɪəsɪs
metamorphosis
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs
metastasis
mɪˈtæstəsɪs
metathesis
mɪˈtæθəsɪs
misemphasis
ˌmɪsˈɛmfəsɪs
overemphasis
ˌəʊvərˈɛmfəsɪs
paedomorphosis
ˌpiːdəˈmɔːfəsɪs
psoriasis
səˈraɪəsɪs
reemphasis
riːˈɛmfəsɪs
transgenesis
trænzˈdʒɛnəsɪs
trypanosomiasis
ˌtrɪpənəsəˈmaɪəsɪs
underemphasis
ˌʌndərˈemfəsɪs
urolithiasis
ˌjʊərəʊlɪˈθaɪəsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS

anthropometric
anthropometrical
anthropometrically
anthropometrist
anthropometry
anthropomorph
anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
anthropomorphise
anthropomorphism
anthropomorphist
anthropomorphize
anthropomorphous
anthropomorphously
anthropopathic
anthropopathism
anthropopathy
anthropophagi
anthropophagic
anthropophagite

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS

affective psychosis
alphosis
cirrhosis
diagnosis
diorthosis
epanorthosis
gomphosis
homomorphosis
Korsakoff´s psychosis
kyphosis
metempsychosis
morphosis
organic psychosis
ornithosis
orthosis
psychosis
puerperal psychosis
sporotrichosis
theriomorphosis
trichosis
whosis

Synonyms and antonyms of anthropomorphosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anthropomorphosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS

Find out the translation of anthropomorphosis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anthropomorphosis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anthropomorphosis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

anthropomorphosis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antropomorfosis
570 millions of speakers

English

anthropomorphosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

anthropomorphosis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

anthropomorphosis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антропоморфоза
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anthropomorphosis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

anthropomorphosis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anthropomorphose
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antropomorfosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

anthropomorphosis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

anthropomorphosis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anthropomorphosis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antropomorfosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anthropomorphosis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

anthropomorphosis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानववंशप्रचरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anthropomorphosis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anthropomorphosis
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anthropomorphosis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антропоморфозами
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anthropomorphosis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

anthropomorphosis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anthropomorphosis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anthropomorphosis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anthropomorphosis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anthropomorphosis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS»

The term «anthropomorphosis» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.228 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «anthropomorphosis» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «anthropomorphosis» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anthropomorphosis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS»

Discover the use of anthropomorphosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anthropomorphosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies in Language Origins
Verbal hallucinations and the anthropomorphosis of nature Claude Lévi-Strauss expresses this idea in a succinct phrase: religion is the "anthropomorphosis of nature". I submit that this anthropomorphosis was mainly achieved by a shift to ...
Jan Wind, Edward G. Pulleyblank, Bernhard H. Bichakjian, 1989
2
Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present
Reinders has observed that anthropomorphosis is a factor in religious and revolutionary iconoclasm, as indeed is the objectification of the body for the purposes of iconoclastic acts.15 The anthropomorphosis of museum objects means that ...
Stacy Boldrick, Leslie Brubaker, Richard S. Clay, 2013
3
Recumbents
The intrinsic contrarieties of God, this compos- sibility of incompatibles, this supposedly perfect oxymoron of all oxymorons, we ought rather make of it a plan for anthropomorphosis . . . Within the singular time of this moratorium, within the ...
Michel Deguy, Jacques Derrida, 2005
4
Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: ...
In recent years, anthropomorphosis has received bad press, as a simplistic or excessively sentimental genre. Lynch complains that the "talking bird, which ought to seem a strange and exotic thing, becomes comically indistinguishable from ...
Albrecht Classen, Marilyn Sandidge, 2010
5
The Spiritual Telegraph
The anthropomorphosis of Deity is a necessity of our natures. To be conceived and believed in at all he must be seen (by the mind's eye) as a Deific man — as a Divine human being. This is humanity's instinct of Deity, and all unsophisticated ...
Samuel Byron Brittan, 1854
6
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
... of looking at the phenomenon. All esoterism in Islam, in Shi'ism and in Sufism, recognizes a divine anthropomorphosis, a divine Manifestation in human form; this anthropomorphosis is essential to the Godhead, but it takes place “in heaven, " ...
Henry Corbin, 2013
7
The Book of Werewolves
other, of identification with a meteorological phenomenon, and presents to us as well the phase of transition from theriomorphosis to anthropomorphosis. The dragon of popular mythology is nothing else than the thunderstorm, rising at the ...
Sabine Baring Gould
8
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
Not until the last three lines, after this grand anthropomorphosis of nature has taken place, does the poem turn to the humans, whose role in this process is subordinate, because they have interfered with the earth's self- regenerating power ...
Neil H. Donahue, 2005
9
The Gender and Science Reader
Critiques also underline problems involved with anthropomorphosis in animal behavior studies. The anthropomorphosis occurs in at least two forms: (a) the use of human language and frameworks to describe animal behavior which is then ...
Muriel Lederman, Ingrid Bartsch, 2001
10
The Metamorphosis of Finitude: An Essay on Birth and ...
There is thus an appropriate kind of anthropomorphism, or perhaps an anthropomorphosis by God, that it has been a mistake for Christianity to forget. It is instructive here to reread the hymn in the Letter to the Philippians: “[He], who though he ...
Emmanuel Falque, 2012

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTHROPOMORPHOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anthropomorphosis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Great expeditions: Tired of the same old? Why not mix things up with …
... with the end-of-the-world desolation of these islands, like the bunny and the cattle carcass, a testament to the limits of anthropomorphosis. «National Post, Sep 14»
2
'BoJack Horseman': The equine ennui of a Hollywood stud
... the show rather cleverly and seamlessly imagines a world of complete anthropomorphosis. Animals and humans in this particular world are ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»
3
A window into mental health, social media can't sub for human link
We certainly want to avoid anthropomorphosis by attributing healing capacity to a communications vehicle. At their best, social media are just ... «Boston Globe, Aug 14»
4
Deflating Empire: The Syrian Threat to the United States
Leaving aside the silly anthropomorphosis of unseen data, Kerry's crude positivism makes for more comedy, especially as he never provided ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Sep 13»
5
The limited stylings of Clutch Cargo
Bugs and Clutch, the first cartoon hosts to infect me with terminal anthropomorphosis. Nowadays, when animated characters stand frozen in ... «San Diego Reader, Jul 13»
6
The Art of Racing in the Rain: 'Long Beach Reads One Book' Selection
It's also an experiment in pulling away the veil between human perception and canine perception without any use of anthropomorphosis. Enzo ... «Long Beach Post, Feb 13»
7
Rachael Ray's Pup-Up Truck
Dorothy Wetzel. October 22, 2012 Marketing 0. Now, anthropomorphosis has rolled on into marketing tactics with Rachael Ray's Pup-Up Food Truck for Dogs. «Business 2 Community, Oct 12»
8
Six months at home with the last mountain gorillas
There's a lot of anthropomorphosis in the series – the gorillas are referred to by name (Kwitonda, Rukina and so on), and the narration is full of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anthropomorphosis [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anthropomorphosis>. Apr 2024 ».
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