What is the word for giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?

What is the word for giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?

Giving human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects or natural phenomena is a human trait called “to anthropomorphize.” Sadly, as in the tragic Sea World attack the proclivity is forgotten as we wonder why the animal behaved as an animal. Obviously, the tendency to anthropomorphize is a source of error.

Are personification and anthropomorphism the same?

Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics or behaviors to an animal, object, or a god. Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is it called when you talk to an inanimate object?

Seeing Humanity in Inanimate Objects This is called “anthropomorphizing.” It happens any time we give human characteristics to non-humans. In this article, I talk mostly about anthropomorphizing objects, but people also anthropomorphize animals, too.

What does Anthropomorphization mean?

verb. to attribute or ascribe human form or behaviour to (a god, animal, object, etc) WORD OF THE DAY.