How to Use anthropomorphism in a Sentence

anthropomorphism

noun

• The anthropomorphism — putting things that are not human in human form — is a constant.
  — Gregory McNamee, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Although there are dangers to anthropomorphism, there is also a lot to learn about ourselves from dogs.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2018
• Green is adept at stripping away the layers of anthropomorphism and cliché that render our often strange Earth familiar to us.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
• The fact that the campaigns involve masquerade, deception, and anthropomorphism—the disguising of robots as people—is part of why the IRA is charged with fraud and not acts of war.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 2 May 2018
• Not too long ago, Amarello's plea could have been dismissed as well-meaning anthropomorphism.
  — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2016
• What drew you to write about mythology and anthropomorphism?
  — Saira Khan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the face of such erasure, anthropomorphism can seem almost virtuous.
  — Eleanor Cummins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• But Van Wassenbergh also suspects that many researchers have been misled by a simple form of anthropomorphism.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
• Liz is hardly the only example of residential anthropomorphism to hit the market in the recent years.
  — Lavanya Ramanathan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• In this way and many others, recent research has revealed, trees are spellbinding, rife for anthropomorphism.
  — Lauren Markham, Wired, 9 Oct. 2021
• The robots' movements and their level of anthropomorphism may be complex phenomena that cannot be reduced to two factors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2010
• The look isn’t accusing (that would be anthropomorphism), but simply a cold, emotionless regard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• The tacit argument of a zoo is that anthropomorphism is a constructive fiction — a way for humans to connect with other animals and develop a stake in their fates.
  — Molly Young, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• Some have explored this in questions of anthropomorphism, others in discussions about the anthropocene.
  — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
• Called anthropomorphism, this is a common phenomenon that makes the unknown seem more familiar and predictable.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
• Suppose the skeptics are correct, and the uncanny sensation of standing face-to-screen with ChatGPT is only naive anthropomorphism.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The robot's level of anthropomorphism does not only depend on its appearance but also on its behavior.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2010
• Like this, such instantaneous anthropomorphism has a deep effect on our cognitive process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
• Hardly a word is uttered, and anthropomorphism is minimal.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• This enterprise may be suspected of anthropomorphism—the projection onto animals of our own thoughts and feelings.
  — Robert O. Paxton, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• The article presented these anecdotes wryly, for the most part, as instances of harmless anthropomorphism, but the same instinct was already driving public policy.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• The imperative to be on guard against anthropomorphism infuses almost every aspect of modern life.
  — Eleanor Cummins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• Darwin’s and Romanes’ notions, though, were largely based on theory, observation and a healthy dollop of anthropomorphism.
  — Alla Katsnelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Darwin’s and Romanes’s notions, though, were largely based on theory, observation and a healthy dollop of anthropomorphism.
  — Alla Katsnelson, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• That notion didn’t always hold sway, and in some ways corrected the excessive anthropomorphism of the 19th century, when such august figures as Charles Darwin ruminated on the maternal affections of starfish and earwigs.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2013
• The figures that populate Kohlmann’s paintings—which have been used to illustrate numerous Vogue articles in the past—carry all of the strange anthropomorphism of Picasso’s ceramics while adding a more mysterious, genderless top note.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2020
• Dig a little deeper, however, and the work of Gopalakrishnan, with its anthropomorphism and spiked armor imagery, reveals itself to also be working in threads of isolationism, protectionism and even the traumas that women often face.
  — Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Connoisseurs of nature television are well aware that drama is usually attained via the old anthropomorphism gambit, i.e., the characterization of predator and prey as villain and victim.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 4 July 2019
• The suggestion that animals have distinct personalities was considered taboo not too long ago, with Goodall herself accused of anthropomorphism with her descriptions.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
• Koike pioneered a new field of research – romantic anthropomorphism, or giving a non-human agent human-like characteristics in a romantic context.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024