What's the word I'm thinking of?

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Zetsu - 06 May 2008 12:22 GMT

There's another word that means the similar thing as
'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
it ends with 'morphosis'. Could anyone tell me what that word is? It's
on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite bring it out of my head.

Thanks"

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Peter Duncanson - 06 May 2008 12:25 GMT

>There's another word that means the similar thing as
>'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
>it ends with 'morphosis'. Could anyone tell me what that word is? It's
>on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite bring it out of my head.
>
>Thanks"

Anthropomorphism.

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Zetsu - 06 May 2008 12:33 GMT

THANKS SO MUCH.
Exactly the word I wanted.
You guys are really great!

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Tony Mountifield - 06 May 2008 13:35 GMT

> >There's another word that means the similar thing as
> >'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think
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>
> Anthropomorphism.

Yeah, just don't do it to computers - they hate it.

Cheers
Tony

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What's the word I'm thinking of?