anthrop-, anthropo-, -anthrope, -anthropic, -anthropical, -anthropically, -anthropism, -anthropist, -anthropoid, -anthropus, -anthropy +
(Greek: man; human being, mankind [including male (man, men; boy, boys) and female (woman, women; girl, girls); in other words, all members of the human race]; people)
anthropomorphitism
1. The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
2. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.
anthropomorphize, anthropomorphization
To attribute a human form or personality; such as, to give a nonhuman thing a human form, human characteristics, or human behavior
anthropomorphoid
1. Suggesting human form and appearance to non-human things.
2. Indicating human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to things not human; such as, inanimate objects, robots, animals, or natural phenomena.
The relation between the
Anthropomorphoid Apes and Mankind.
—Discussed by Robert Hartmann; "Die mensch-ahnlichen Affen", Internat Wissenschaft Bibliothek; Leipzig, Germany; 1883.
anthropomorphoidal
1. A reference to similarities with the human form and appearance.
2. Relating to, or ascribing, human characteristics or behavior to things not human; such as, robots, animals, or natural phenomena.
anthropomorphology
The application, or attribution of human characteristics, to God, or to a god.
Describing God as possessing features like those of human beings.
anthropomorphosis
Metamorphosis into human form.
anthropomorphotheist
Someone who ascribes human attributes or characteristics to God or to a god.
anthropomorphous
A reference to the human form; having the form of, or resemblance to, a human.
"As little does the absence of anthropomorphous apes prove that they never existed among the fauna of Southern Europe; the gorilla, for instance, inhabits silent forests where scarcely any other four-footed animals are met with."
—Anthropoid Apes, by Robert Hartmann;
Professor in the University of Berlin; New York: D. Appleton & Co.; 1883.
anthropomorphously
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.
anthroponomical
Concerned with the laws that regulate human action.
anthroponomist
A specialist in the science of human behavior.
anthroponomy, anthroponomics
1. The science of the laws of the development of the human organism, or species, in relation to other organisms and to their environments.
2. The science of human behavior.
anthroponosis
1. An infectious disease confined to humans but originally derived from animals.
2. A disease caused by an agent originally found in other vertebrates than man that has become adapted to man alone and is not found in other vertebrate hosts, although it may continue to have a life cycle involving invertebrate intermediate hosts.
anthroponymy
Personal names of people as a subject of study or the study of personal names.
anthropopathic
Of or pertaining to anthropopathy or the ascription of human passions or feelings to a being or beings not human; especially, to a deity.
Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
andro-;
homo-;
vir-.
Related "people, human" word units:
demo-;
ethno-;
ochlo-;
popu-;
publi-.
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