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Anthropomorphic vs Furry - What's the difference?

anthropomorphic | furry |

As adjectives the difference between anthropomorphic and furry

is that anthropomorphic is having the form of a person or a human being while furry is covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

As a noun furry is

an animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.

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

    furry

    English

    (wikipedia furry)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
  • (informal) Having both animal and human characteristics; of or related to the furry subculture.
  • Noun

    (furries)
  • An animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.
  • (slang) A member of the furry fandom or subculture; a furfan.
  • (slang) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a furry character.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (furry fandom senses) scalie, avian

    See also

    * kemonomimi * nahualism * anthropomorphism * zoomorphism