Fancy word for human attributes
Rabbit with clothes and a pocket watch? Yup, that qualifies.
I must have some smart friends because the word “anthropomorphize” was thrown at me in a Facebook comment over the weekend. In the unlikely event that you encounter that word in the near future, you should know what it means.
anthropomorphize – “to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.)”1
Better yet, why wait until someone says the word to you? The next time you are knee deep in a conversation about talking kangaroos, use your new Dinner Topics knowledge and sound smarter than the other guy talking about cartoon animals. With the new Alice in Wonderland movie recently released, you might be having this conversation sooner than you’d expect.
Read on:
Merriam-Webster.com – visit this site to hear the pronunciation
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