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Anthropomorphic vs Anthropoid - What's the difference?

anthropomorphic | anthropoid |

As adjectives the difference between anthropomorphic and anthropoid

is that anthropomorphic is having the form of a person or a human being while anthropoid is having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance.

As a noun anthropoid is

an anthropoid animal.

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

    anthropoid

    English

    (wikipedia anthropoid)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance
  • having characteristics of an ape

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An anthropoid animal.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
    • The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

    See also

    * humanoid