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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
zoomorphize en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To endow with animal qualities.
This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.
1964, Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution:So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us. It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.
2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon:
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anthropomorphize · animalize