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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪzəm/

名詞

anthropomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropomorphisms)

1. The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics and behaviors to entities.[from mid-18th c.]
   • 2016 January 14, Stephen Ross, “What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo”, in The Guardian‎:

     Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down.

2. (theology) The ascribing or attribution of human characteristics to divine nonhuman entities.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 222:

     Only an over-idealized Hellenism may properly be acutely sensitive to the anthropomorphism of gods, when, in speech and action, they display their human qualities.

使用する際の注意点

• Despite the similarity in meaning, this term carries very different connotations when used in different contexts. In literature, anthropomorphism describes merely a device of fiction writing, whereas in science (particularly biology) anthropomorphism has traditionally been used pejoratively when a scientist appears to be attributing to animals characteristics that are assumed to be exclusive to human beings.

反意語

• dehumanization

等位語

• humanization
• personification
• prosopopoeia

派生語

関連する語

• anthropomorphic
• anthropomorphically

参考

• zoomorphism
• kemonomimi
• nahualism

Further reading

• anthropomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia