anthropomorphism

Etymology
Coined in the mid-1700s. From and.

Noun

 * 1) The attribution of human characteristics and behavior to something not human.
 * 2)  The attribution of human characteristics to divine entities.

Usage notes
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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: antropomorfisme
 * Albanian: antropomorfizëm
 * Arabic: تَجْسِيم
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: antropomorfizm
 * Basque: antropomorfismo
 * Belarusian: антрапамарфі́зм
 * Breton: denheñvelegezh
 * Bulgarian: антропоморфизъм
 * Catalan: antropomorfisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 擬人論
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: antropomorfismo
 * Estonian: antropomorfism
 * Finnish:, ihmisenkaltaistaminen
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ანთროპომორფიზმი
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Anthropomorfismus
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: manngervastefna
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: anthropomorphismo
 * Irish: antrapamorfachas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 擬人観
 * Kazakh: антропоморфизм
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: антропоморфизм
 * Latvian: antropomorfisms
 * Limburgish: antropomorfisme
 * Lithuanian: antropomorfizmas
 * Luxembourgish: Anthropomorphismus
 * Malay: antropomorfisme
 * Manx: antrapoamorfaght
 * Mongolian: антропоморфизм
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: antropomorfisme
 * Occitan: antropomorfisme
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: антропоморфѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: antropomorfizmus
 * Slovene: antropomorfizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: tashihisi
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: αнтропоморфи́зм
 * Tamil: மாந்தவுருவகம்
 * Thai: มานุษยรูปนิยม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: antropomorfizm
 * Vietnamese: