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Definition of Anthropomorphism

1. Noun. The representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits.

Definition of Anthropomorphism

1. n. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

Definition of Anthropomorphism

1. Noun. the attribution or ascription to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature etc, of characteristics believed or assumed by some to belong exclusively to humans. (defdate from the mid-18th c.) ¹

2. Noun. (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Anthropomorphism

1. 1. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections. 2. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human. Origin: Gr. Of human form; man + form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Anthropomorphism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1894)
"The ideal of true anthropomorphism, and the ideal also of true science, ... Our care, then, must be, not to avoid anthropomorphism, but to avoid bad ..."

2. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"Objections to anthropomorphism : (a) from the ... that it is anthropomorphic, and rests, like all anthropomorphism, upon a false estimate of man's place in ..."

3. Lectures on the History of Christian Dogmas by August Neander (1858)
"Christianity has here to combat with two opposite tendencies; There is the sensuous anthropomorphism, which does not conceive of God as pure Spirit, ..."

4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"The doctrine of final causes implies a more or less refined anthropomorphism. It assumes that we may attribute to the Divine Being purposes and thoughts ..."

5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"carried out upon principles analogous to those which in other times led to anthropomorphism. It is surely a gratuitous assumption that the Divine Mind, and, ..."

6. Foundations of Christian Belief: Studies in the Philosophy of Religion by Francis Lorette Strickland (1915)
"anthropomorphism. anthropomorphism is the name given to this way of conceiving the divine in terms of our human life. This word conies from the two Greek ..."

7. The Mystery of Miracles: A Scientific and Philosophical Investigation by Joseph William Reynolds (1881)
"False anthropomorphism likens nature to a building, or to a tree, ... The low sort of anthropomorphism, takes the outer form, the material organism, ..."

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