Meaning

(transitive) To endow with human qualities..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To endow with human qualities.
2. (transitive) To ascribe or attribute human characteristics and behaviors to entities.

Example Sentences

Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]

A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse.

It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this.

But for some animal-obsessive ceramists, anthropomorphizing as a sculptural approach is a zany (and speedy) joy.

I do think that this perspective offers a useful corrective to the tendency to anthropomorphize large-language models, but there is another aspect to the compression analogy that is worth considering.

Word Forms

• anthropomorphizes
• anthropomorphizing
• anthropomorphized
• anthropomorphise

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When Should You Use Anthropomorphize?

Use anthropomorphize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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