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Anthropomorphic vs Anthro - What's the difference?

anthropomorphic | anthro |

As adjectives the difference between anthropomorphic and anthro

is that anthropomorphic is having the form of a person or a human being while anthro is anthropomorphic.

As a noun anthro is

anthropology.

anthropomorphic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having the form of a person or a human being
  • (of inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human entities) Given attributes of human beings.
  • * 1909 , The Quarterly Review , p. 124:
    • The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.

    Derived terms

    * anthropomorphically

    See also

    * anthropomorphism * anthropologic * theriomorphic

    anthro

    English

    Noun

  • (informal) anthropology
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=September 9, author=Cecil Adams, title=The Straight Dope, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=I gather the phrase is used in lieu of some more practical benefit, e.g., a "job," which, as holders of English lit and anthro degrees can tell you, isn't necessarily part of the program. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Ann Wilson, title=Fearful Symmetry, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Unlikely as it seemed, he might somehow return to the Empire, and if that happened, any information he could bring back would be valuable to the socio and anthro specialists. }}
  • (informal) An anthropomorphic character.
  • * 2012 , Lindsay Cibos, ?Jared Hodges, Draw More Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic Fantasy Creatures
    • Extra animals add complexity, but the benefit is that you're more likely to create a unique new character. There's hundreds of wolf anthros , but how many zebra-striped pig-tigers are there?

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) anthropomorphic
  • * 2004 , Brad Guigar, The everything cartooning book (page 146)
    • They are to anthro cartoonists what Trekkies are to Star Trek, gathering for special conventions that feature anthro cartoons and cartoonists.