Meanings
present singular third person anthropomorphises · participle present anthropomorphising · participle past anthropomorphised · past anthropomorphised
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of anthropomorphize.
Certainly we seem to readily anthropomorphise inanimate objects […]
2013 November 12, Nathalia Gjersoe, “How gullible are we when it comes to robots?”, in The Guardian1 more example
It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this.
2018 June 15, Emma Brockes, “No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ise.
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