Anthropomorphism

thumb|Mickey Mouse, an anthropomorphic mouse and an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by [[Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, showing typical elements of anthropomorphism: bipedalism, human-like hands with opposable thumbs, human facial expressions, and wearing clothing.]] Anthropomorphism is the ascribing of human personality, appearance, conduct, cognition, or other attributes to non-human entities, often including non-human animals. In fiction and folklore, it is specifically the endowing of non-human characters with human-like behaviors, speech, facial expressions, etc; common examples

thumb|upright=1.35|Set of porcelain figures of personifications of the [[four continents, Germany, , from left: Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Of these, Africa has retained her classical attributes. Formerly James Hazen Hyde collection.]] Personification is the representation of any thing, being, or abstraction as a person or with person-like qualities. In the arts and as a literary device, personification is common for: places, especially cities, countries, and continents; elements of the natural world, such as trees, the seasons, the traditional "four elements", the four cardinal winds,

thumb|The Dwarf (folklore)|dwarves of [[Germanic mythology are an example of humanoid beings.]] A humanoid (; from English human and -oid "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics. By the 20th century, the term came to describe fossils which were morphologically similar, but not identical, to those of the human skeleton.

confident unjustified claim by an AI

attribution of human emotion and conduct to non-human things

Objection against killing of animals perceived as "cute" or otherwise desirable

emotion in non-human animals

Anthropopathism (from Greek ἄνθρωπος anthropos, "human" and πάθος pathos, "suffering") is the attribution of human emotions, or the ascription of human feelings or passions to a non-human being, generally to a deity.

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