Anthropomorphize vs Humanize - What's the difference?
anthropomorphize | humanize |
To endow with human qualities.
To attribute human characteristics to something that is non-human.
To make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.
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(medicine) To convert into something human or belonging to humans.
To make humane.
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As verbs the difference between anthropomorphize and humanize
is that anthropomorphize is to endow with human qualities while humanize is to make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human or humanize can be to make humane.anthropomorphize
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Alternative forms
* anthropomorphise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
humanize
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Etymology 1
Verb
(humaniz)- Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
citation, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing .’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
- to humanize vaccine lymph
- humanized monoclonal antibodies
