Boanthropy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Boanthropy is a noun meaning (psychiatry) The delusion that one is an ox or cow.
Meaning
(psychiatry) The delusion that one is an ox or cow.
Example Sentences
Many scholars have diagnosed Nebuchadnezzar's illness as a form of insania zoanthropica, such as boanthropy or lycanthropy, where a human being thinks himself or herself an ox or a wolf.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bovinity, oxhead, oxblood, bullock, oxherd, cowboyism.
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