morpho-, morph-, -morphous, -morphically, -morphia, -morphosis, -morphously, -morphy, -morphic, -morphism

The manlike, or anthropoid, apes.

1. A reference to the explanation of a Deity as anthropomorphous, or as having a human form and character.
2. Relating to attributing a human personality to anything impersonal or irrational.
3. A descriptive application to non-human objects in human form; such as, rock art that depicts a god as having a human shape.
4. Relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism; regarding animals as possessing human qualities.
5. Suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things; anthropomorphic, human like.

1. The attribution of a human form or character.
2. The ascription of a human form and attributes to God.
3. The use of language that is applicable to men when speaking about God; anthropomorphology.
4. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.
5. Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

In religion and mythology, anthropomorphism refers to the attribution of a human body or of human qualities generally, to a divine being or beings. Many mythologies are almost entirely concerned with anthropomorphic deities who express human characteristics; such as, jealousy, hatred, or love. The Greek gods; for example, Zeus and Apollo were often depicted in human form exhibiting both commendable and despicable human traits.

Anthropomorphism is a form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similarly to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person), is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, or natural phenomena. Animals, forces of nature, and unseen or unknown authors of chance are frequent subjects of anthropomorphosis.

Someone who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

1. Someone who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity.
2. Specifically, people of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc.

To ascribe human characteristics to things not human.

Transformation into human form.

1. A reference to having or suggesting human form and appearance to non-human creatures or objects.
2. Characterized by ascribing human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to things not human; such as, inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

The transformation of the shape or the structure of aqueous vapor, moisture, or steam in the air.

1. Patterned after oneself.
2. The judgment of others by analogy from the knowledge of one's self.
3. An ascription (relating a particular cause) to others of one's own characteristics.

1. Consisting of two morphemes (the smallest meaningful elements of speech or writing).
2. Containing two morphemes, as the words waited and dogs.

1. A nonrepresentational form or pattern that resembles a living organism in shape or appearance.
2. A decorative form or object resembling a living organism.
3. A graphical representation of an organism generated on a computer.

Beautiful shape or form.

1. In biology, the existence among animals of the same species of two distinct forms that differ in one or more characteristics; such as, coloration, size, or shape.
2. In botany, the occurrence of two distinct forms of the same parts in one plant, as in the juvenile and adult leaves of ivy.
3. In chemistry, the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms while having the same chemical composition.

1. Abnormality of shape or form.
2. A branch of clinical genetics concerned with the diagnosis and interpretation of patterns of the three types of structural defects: malformation, disruption, and deformation.