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Anthropomorphism vs Theriomorphism - What's the difference?

anthropomorphism | theriomorphism |

As nouns the difference between anthropomorphism and theriomorphism

is that anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to that which isn't human while theriomorphism is the shaping of something in the form of an animal.

anthropomorphism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to that which isn't human.
  • (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings

    • Usage notes

    This term carries very different connotations when used in different contexts. In literature, anthropomorphism' describes merely a device of fiction writing, whereas in science (particularly biology) ' anthropomorphism has traditionally been used pejoratively when a scientist appears to be attributing to animals characteristics that are assumed to be exclusive to human beings.

    Related terms

    * anthropomorphic * anthropomorphically

    See also

    * ("anthropomorphism" on Wikipedia) * prosopopoeia * zoomorphism * kemonomimi * nahualism English words suffixed with -ism

    theriomorphism

    English

    Noun

  • The shaping of something in the form of an animal.

    • Hypernyms

    * zoomorphism

    See also

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