Definition of anthropopathism

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an·thro·pop·a·thism    (nthr-pp-thzm) KEY 

NOUN:

Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Late Greek anthrpopaths, involved in human suffering (from Greek, having human feelings, from anthrpopathein, to have human feelings : anthrpo-, anthropo- + pathos, feeling; see pathos) + -ism