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anthropopathism

 
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an·thro·pop·a·thism

(ăn'thrə-pŏp'ə-thĭz'əm) pronunciation
n.
Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

[Late Greek anthrōpopathēs, involved in human suffering (from Greek, having human feelings , from anthrōpopathein, to have human feelings : anthrōpo-, anthropo- + pathos, feeling; see pathos) + -ISM.]


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