anthropomorphic
ಮಾನವರೂಪಿ
definition
adjective
The Greek, metaphysical concept of the Logos is in sharp contrast to the concept of a personal God described in anthropomorphic terms typical of Hebrew thought.
relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism.
example
In describing elephants, 'anthropomorphic' terms are unavoidable.
Wallace always felt that ‘selection’ inappropriately imported 'anthropomorphic' notions of Nature choosing purposefully between variants into natural history.
The word means ‘old woman’ or ‘grandmother’ and refers to the vertical form, an 'anthropomorphic' usage similar to the derivation of pretzel from bracelli, because the twist of dough resembles folded arms.
Variously amassed, the amalgams of abstract parts sometimes take on 'anthropomorphic' suggestions: masks with alien eyes peering through the cosmos, torsos and pelvises in bodices and twirling skirts.
To many commentators, the obliteration of the Buddhas seemed to hark back to a bygone age, reinforcing the widespread notion that Islamic culture is implacably hostile to 'anthropomorphic' art.
In the story, the flu appears in 'anthropomorphic' form as a group of human beings who are heard discussing where they ought to go next to contaminate other people.
This ancient Greek poet crafted timeless morality tales using 'anthropomorphic' animals as characters.
Many wine tasters have resorted to using 'anthropomorphic' terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious.
First-person animal narratives, such as Black Beauty, are overtly 'anthropomorphic' fantasies and cannot operate within or even congruent to the framework of natural science.
To claim otherwise would surely be to objectify music and to override the 'anthropomorphic' quality of musical engagement, at the root of which is the very possibility of surprise central to live performance.
As the shoot went on, people actually started to talk about the house in 'anthropomorphic' terms.
This is a natural human reaction - why shouldn't an 'anthropomorphic' frog feel the same way?
The Greek, metaphysical concept of the Logos is in sharp contrast to the concept of a personal God described in 'anthropomorphic' terms typical of Hebrew thought.
‘The hand of God’ is an 'anthropomorphic' term for the creative power, providential care, and saving grace of God.
None of the characters in here are human, they're all furry or 'anthropomorphic' animals.
Of course none of this is not really " elephant talk ", although Kipling assumes in his usual 'anthropomorphic' way that elephants can communicate complex ideas.
Animal narratives, at their imaginative best, are not invitations to 'anthropomorphic' sentimentality, but rather literary extensions of natural history and a potentially potent ethical force.
No less clearly he rejects the childish 'anthropomorphic' trend of human thought.
Henry Williamson, for instance, rewrote his classic Tarka the Otter seventeen times in an effort to authenticate his representation and to excise all 'anthropomorphic' tendencies from his text.
While zooming through the cosmos, he collides with a tiny chunk of an asteroid that - wonder of wonders - contains a teeny, tiny functioning society of teeny, tiny little 'anthropomorphic' creatures.
An 'anthropomorphic' bear in a camouflage jacket was speaking to him!
They also realized that descriptions and explanations of observed phenomena could be phrased in mathematical or geometrical rather than 'anthropomorphic' terms.
Totally abstract, and indeterminate, purged of all 'anthropomorphic' and mythological qualities, God becomes the ominously ambiguous and threatening deity who evokes nothing but dread and terror.
She was thus well positioned to make respectful, informed, and unsentimental observations, and to deploy 'anthropomorphic' comparisons and metaphors in a sophisticated way.
The Qur'an also uses 'anthropomorphic' language to describe God (See the beginning of this article).
Their cleverness includes the ability to amuse themselves while hiding by engaging in vocal displays, known 'anthropomorphically' as ‘discourses’, which they use to form and maintain social bonds and to compete for social prestige.
To speak more 'anthropomorphically' , God grieves at the situation we are in.
Many were derived 'anthropomorphically' from the dimensions of parts of the human anatomy.
His characterizations of the individuals within a society might be 'anthropomorphically' ascribed to sheep and wolves, with the wolves lined up on a spectrum of power lust or madness, from a category of good to bad.
If I wanted to treat computers 'anthropomorphically' , like so many of my colleagues, I'd call this ‘artificial imagination.’
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