Usually means: Attributing human traits to non-humans.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. anthropomorphism: Merriam-Webster
  2. anthropomorphism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anthropomorphism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anthropomorphism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anthropomorphism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphism: Wordnik
  7. anthropomorphism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anthropomorphism: Wiktionary
  9. anthropomorphism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anthropomorphism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anthropomorphism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anthropomorphism: Dictionary.com
  13. Anthropomorphism (heresy), Anthropomorphism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Anthropomorphism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. anthropomorphism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. anthropomorphism: Rhymezone
  17. Anthropomorphism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. anthropomorphism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. anthropomorphism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. anthropomorphism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. anthropomorphism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. anthropomorphism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. anthropomorphism: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. anthropomorphism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. anthropomorphism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anthropomorphism: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anthropomorphism: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. anthropomorphism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Anthropomorphism: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. anthropomorphism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Anthropomorphism: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropomorphism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anthropomorphism)

noun:  The attribution of human characteristics and behavior to something not human.
noun:  (theology) The attribution of human characteristics to divine entities.

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