Zoomorphize

Quick meaning: Zoomorphize is a verb meaning (transitive) To endow with animal qualities.

Meaning

(transitive) To endow with animal qualities.

Example Sentences

This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.

So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us. It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.

Word Forms

• zoomorphizes
• zoomorphizing
• zoomorphized
• zoomorphise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zoomorphise, anthropomorphize, animalize, anthropomorphise, anthropize, morphologize.

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