anthropize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transform or adapt the environment either to meet the needs of humans, or by human activity.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "In his speculations about the phylogenies of the apes, Reynolds rests his conclusions upon standard but insecure evidence and premature interpretations, and he occasionally anthropizes living apes; for example (p. 126) "maniacal calls of groups of chimpanzees ...""
- "This dream of mechanizing people by way of anthropizing machines seems to have originated in the early nineteenth century"
- "behavioral literature that shows ways in which humans can be prompted to treat anthropized technology as if it is human"
- "This framing however requires you to anthropize AI to an extent. How do you view it as an other species?"
Etymology
From anthrop- + -ize.