zoomorphize

present singular third person zoomorphizes · participle present zoomorphizing · participle past zoomorphized · past zoomorphized · alternative zoomorphise

1. transitiveTo endow with animal qualities.

   This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.

   1964, Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution

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   So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us. It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.

   2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon