Anthropomorphic

Ah, what a fabulous word. Quite a mouthful. I'd give you the official pronunciation guide, alas I haven't font to pull that off. You'll have to settle for my own version.

(an-threh-peh-moore-fick)

AND, the definition:

1. Ascribing human form or attributes to a thing or being not human.

2. Resembling or made to resemble a human form.



I have a serious problem with this. Being an animal lover, I totally tend to think of animals as fuzzy humans. I assume they feel and think like we do all too often (which is anthropopathy - awesome variation, btw).

Most every fable is anthropomorphic, as well as most children's stories and movies. Who would've thought we could identify with ants, lions, bears, toys, robots, etc.? Give them human qualities, however, and we suddenly feel bad squashing the ants waltzing through our gardens (ok, not so true for me), or throwing out a toy we don't play with.