anthrop-, anthropo-, -anthrope, -anthropic, -anthropical, -anthropically, -anthropism, -anthropist, -anthropoid, -anthropus, -anthropy +

In an anthropopathic manner or to look upon non-human objects anthropopathically as being alive and with human feelings or to describe God as having such human features.

1. The attribution of human feelings to non humans; that is, to gods, lower animals, or inanimate objects.
2. The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or a god, or to an object in nature.

Characterized by or connected with anthropophagy; the consumption of humans; such as, a cannibal.

A habitual cannibal or someone who eats human flesh.

Referring to anthropophagists or characterized by being eaters of human beings.

1. A reference to those who eat human flesh.
2. Descriptive of eating human beings, being canibalistic.

In an anthropophagous manner; or relating to the consumption of humans.

1. A reference to someone who eats the flesh of other human beings; cannibalism.
2. Being eaters of human flesh.

The word cannibal comes from Spanish canibal, "a savage, cannibal"; from , "brave men". The natives were believed to be anthropophagites. Columbus, seeking evidence that he was in Asia, thought the name meant the natives were subjects of the Great Khan.

Cannibalism also refers to an animal that eats the flesh of other animals of the same species.

The eating, or the consumption, of humans; cannibalism.

1. Any creature that thrives, or prefers, the close proximity to humans.
2. A human-seeking, or selecting, parasite that prefers humans over animals as a source of a blood meal.

1. A reference to human-seeking or human-preference; especially, when considering bloodsucking arthropods that have a preference for the human host as a source of blood or tissues over those of animal hosts; and dermatophytic fungi which grow preferentially on humans rather than other animals.
2. Thriving in a human environment or preferring humans as hosts for nourishment; especially, with reference to parasites that show specificity for humans as opposed to other species, or of any flora or fauna that benefits from human activities.

1. Thriving in close proximity to mankind.
2. A reference to biting or blood-sucking insects that feed on humans.

1. The fear, or dread, of mankind resulting in an avoidance of all social human social relationships.
2. An abnormal fear of people, of human society, a dread of human companionship, or it may be centered on a particular individual.

An example in the extreme would involve the complete avoidance of people by the phobic.

The ascription or characteristic of a human nature to God or to gods.

Someone who ascribes human nature to a deity.