anthropopathy

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -pathy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɒpəθi/

Noun

anthropopathy (countable and uncountable, plural anthropopathies)

  1. The attribution of human emotions to a god.
    • 1846, Julius Charles Hare, The Mission of the Comforter and Other Sermons with Notes, London: John W. Parker, []:
      In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy.

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