Lycanthrope vs Therianthrope - What's the difference?
lycanthrope | therianthrope | Hyponyms |
Any mythical being which is part human, part animal.
Someone with an intense spiritual or psychological identification with a non-human animal.
* {{quote-book
, date = 2007-04-20
, title = A Field Guide to Otherkin
, author = Lupa
, edition = 1st
, location = Stafford
, publisher = Megalithica Books
, isbn = 9781905713073
, page = 18
, passage = Another is that I myself identify as Otherkin—a wolf therianthrope , to be exact—and I find this particular subculture to be absolutely fascinating.
}}
Therianthrope is a hyponym of lycanthrope.
As nouns the difference between lycanthrope and therianthrope
is that lycanthrope is a werewolf while therianthrope is any mythical being which is part human, part animal.lycanthrope
English
Synonyms
* werewolfDerived terms
* lycanthropySee also
* werebear * wereboar * wererat * weretiger * werewolfAnagrams
* ----therianthrope
English
Noun
(en noun)- Therianthropes don't feel a need to dress in fursuits, because they believe they already are their animal, inside.