anthropomorphism

English - Turkish

Definition of anthropomorphism in English Turkish dictionary: antropomorfizm; insanbiçimcilik; (Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) İnsanbiçimcilik, antropomorfizm: İnsan şeklinde putlara inanma ve tapma esasına dayanan bir din. Allah'ı insan vasıflarıyla tasavvur eden dinî inançlar da antropomorfizm'in başka kılıkta görünüşleridir; (isim) insanbiçimcilik; anthropomorphous insan şeklinde

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Definition of anthropomorphism in English English dictionary: the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings; the attribution or ascription to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature etc, of characteristics believed or assumed by some to belong exclusively to humans; The process of labeling animal behavior using terms that apply to human behavior; The act of ascribing human characteristics to non-humans (especially to God); The tendency to ascribe human features (such as hands or arms) or other human characteristics to God; Attribution of human characteristics to non-human things Thus, an anthropomorphic religion treats god as a personal being, and anthropomorphic natural theories may suppose that plants, animals, or the earth itself think and feel in the same ways that we do Recommended Reading: Eileen Crist, Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Temple, 2000) {at Amazon com} and Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals, ed by Robert W Mitchell, Nicholas S Thompson, and H Lyn Miles (SUNY, 1996) {at Amazon com} Also see BGHT, ColE, ISM, noesis, CE, and MacE; The tendency to ascribe human features (such as hands or arms) or other human characteristics to God See p 140; embuing machines (especially computers) with human capabilities or responsibilities; ( adj anthropomorphic) A Greek term for the attribution of human behavior or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, natural phenomena, or deity; with regard to deity, anthropomorphism became a point of theological discussion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam See Part 1; The ascription to God of human anatomy such as hands, arms, eyes, etc; the attributing of human qualities to non-human entities, especially to God; a figure of speech where the poet characterizes an abstract thing or object as if it were a person See also personification; An IA behaviour, of learning the from users action, for e g , mail sorting programs, spam blocking programs that learn how to weed out email based on watching the user's action and making inferences; The tendency to refer to machines, such as computers, as if they have human traits, capabilities, or responsibilities; Anthropomorphism is from the Greek [anthropos] meaning human, and [morphe] which means form It is the doctrine of ascribing human form or human attributes to a deity In Christianity it is when people ascribe human features like hands, legs, feet, or other such human characteristics, to God [back]; The representation of a non-human as a human God in the earlier parts of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is described in human terms, as having a body Sometimes anthropomorphism is extended to animals who are assumed to have human feelings; Attributing human characteristics to something not human; particularly, ascribing human shape and form to a deity; Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities such as animals, inanimate objects, or God Genesis 3: 8 is an anthropomorphic image of God walking in the garden The book of Proverbs contains several anthropomorphic portrayals of Wisdom as a woman; Seeing animals or the world itself as having human characteristics, particularly as having feelings and motives like those of human beings Everything is like us See Pathetic fallacy; projection of human characteristics onto nonhuman things; The idea that ascribes to God, or a god, the characteristics of a human being; the attributing of human shape or characteristics to gods, objects, animals, etc; Attribution of human characteristics to machines, animals or things; The endowing of nonhuman objects or forces with human characteristics; the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits; Ascribing human characteristics to animals or physical events; The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections; the attribution or ascription of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature etc; The ascription of human characteristics to things not human; Anthropomorphism is the idea that an animal, a god, or an object has feelings or characteristics like those of a human being; {i} act of giving human qualities to things which are not human; anthropomorphitism; anthropomorphitic