Overhumanize

Quick meaning: Overhumanize is a verb meaning (transitive) To overly humanize a nonhuman or subhuman entity.

Meaning

(transitive) To overly humanize a nonhuman or subhuman entity.

Example Sentences

How can you overhumanize something that is already simply human?

Here's what I don't like: overhumanized TFs (eg: fleshy faces, Primus theory), and unrealistic humans.

Ironically, Americans have been bitching for years about "man in a rubber suit" Toho Godzilla, and then when an American version finally materializes, it looks more like a man in a suit (thanks to the overhumanized anatomy) than any previous Godzilla.

Word Forms

• overhumanizes
• overhumanizing
• overhumanized
• overhumanise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subhumanize, unhumanize, dehumanize, overobjectify, overexoticize, misanthropize.

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