What does zoomorphize mean?
Zoomorphize means (transitive) To endow with animal qualities..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To endow with animal qualities..
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.
Use zoomorphize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zoomorphize means (transitive) To endow with animal qualities..
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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.
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