anthropomorphic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   attributing human form, emotions, motives, or behavior to a god, animal, object, or natural process

   Russell rejects the anthropomorphic idea that physical causes aim deliberately at their effects.

From anthropomorphous + -ic, built from Ancient Greek anthropos ("human being") + morphe ("form, shape"). The term first described gods represented in human form and later broadened to any projection of human traits onto the nonhuman.

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