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Ascribing human feelings to something that is not human.

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Usage examples (3)
  • While this anthropopathic approach enjoys full citizenship in the realms of art, literature, and mythology it makes for poor science.
  • The conception of these deities was anthropopathic, in their motives and passions they were more powerful and more perfect men, they had a human body and a human...
  • Anthropomorphic and anthropopathic expressions are avoided by roundabout expressions or in other ways; obscure Hebrew words are often taken without change into the text;...
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