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Anthropomorphic vs Humanoid - What's the difference?

anthropomorphic | humanoid |

As adjectives the difference between anthropomorphic and humanoid

is that anthropomorphic is having the form of a person or a human being while humanoid is having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

As a noun humanoid is

a being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

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

    humanoid

    English

    (wikipedia humanoid)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

    • See also

    * anthropoid