anthropomorphism
- 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.) .
- Noun. (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings.
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