Deanthropomorphism
Deanthropomorphism
(de, a privative; Gr. anthropos, man, and morphe, form) The philosophic tendency, first cynically applied by Xenophanes (“if cattle and lions had hands to paint . . .”) and since then by rationalists and addicts of enlightenment, to get rid of an understandable, if primitive, desire to endow phenomena and the hypostatized objects of man’s thought and aspirations with human characteristics. — K.F.L.