Anthropopathism
ascription of human p-ssions or feelings to a being or beings not human, especially to a deity.
historical examples
anthropopathism, an-thro-pop′a-thizm, n. the ascription to the deity of human p-ssions and affections—also anthropop′athy.
chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various
noun
the attribution of human p-ssions, etc, to a deity, object, etc
n.
“ascribing of human feelings to god,” 1640s, from greek anthropopatheia “humanity,” literally “human feeling,” from anthropo- + -patheia, comb. form of pathos “suffering, disease, feeling” (see pathos). related: anthropopathic; anthropopathically.
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