Morphological vs Anthropomorphic - What's the difference?
morphological | anthropomorphic |
Of, or pertaining to, morphology
*
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:
As adjectives the difference between morphological and anthropomorphic
is that morphological is of, or pertaining to, morphology while anthropomorphic is having the form of a person or a human being.morphological
English
Adjective
(-)- In much the same way, morphological competence'' is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that ''van'' and ''can'' have the respective plural forms ''vans'' and ''cans'', but that the plural of ''man'' is ''men'' and not *''mans . [...]
Derived terms
* morphologicallyanthropomorphic
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.