anthropomorphize
/ˌanθɹəpəˈmɔːfʌɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.46 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]"
- "A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse."
- "It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this."
- "But for some animal-obsessive ceramists, anthropomorphizing as a sculptural approach is a zany (and speedy) joy."
- "I do think that this perspective offers a useful corrective to the tendency to anthropomorphize large-language models, but there is another aspect to the compression analogy that is worth considering."
Etymology
By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ize.