Meaning of anthropomorphize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To endow with human qualities.
   transitive
2. To attribute human-like characteristics to (something that is non-human).
   transitive

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Examples

“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.”

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