Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: anthropopathism
  1. The attribution of human emotions or feelings to non-human being, esp. a deity
    "Moreover, when hate is attributed to God in scriptural translations, it is most likely an anthropopathism"

Derived forms: anthropopathisms

Type of: anthropomorphism, theanthropism

Encyclopedia: Anthropopathism