anthropomorphizationn.
/ˌanθrəpəˌmɔːfʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌænθrəpəˌmɔrfaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or fact of attributing human characteristics, form, or personality to something non-human (in later use esp. an animal). Also: an instance of this.
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anthropomorphism1845
anthropism1850
anthropomorphization1872
anthropopsychism1884
1868 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 299 The process of de-anthropomorphisation (to speak after the manner of Coleridge), which has all along characterised the history of religious development.]
1872 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 230 His treatment..includes far more than that mere anthropomorphization of physical events which we call fetichism.
1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 216 All such discussions rest on an anthropomorphization of outward force.
1963 Punch 2 Jan. 7/3 My..conviction..that anthropomorphisation, attributing to animals the characteristics of human beings, was a lot of rot.
2011 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 3 Mar. r1 The children identify directly with the young turtle, a new twist on an old tradition of anthropomorphization in children's literature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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