Pithecomorphism

Quick meaning: Pithecomorphism is a noun meaning (rare) The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes.

Meaning

(rare) The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes.

Example Sentences

Indeed, Leroi-Gourhan's objective, as I have said, was not to find hypothetical transitions between pithecomorphism and anthropomorphism but to spot an evolutive divergence towards a totally original way of being, that of man.

Some are dissatisfied, call it anthropomorphism, when we venture to compare man with God. After all, men are not apes or ape-like, pithecomorphism is but an insensate dream. Without or doubt or question, man, I affirm, assert, and declare, is not an ape or ape-like.

[…] Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already “refuted,” in 1817 and again in 1824, a black origin for the Egyptian civilization, […]. They evoked the “pithecomorphism,” or resemblance to apes, of the “black race,” and said moreover that the skulls of Egyptian mummies were similar to those of Europeans.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include theriomorphism, apomorph, pseudomorphism, pleiomorphism, hemimorphism, anthropomorphitism.

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