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anthropomorphic

human-shaped; humanized

Today this word meansGiven human form or human character.

Anthropos (human) + morphē (form).

The Greek gods are unusually human — they envy, sulk, and cheat. That single fact shapes the entire character of Greek myth.

Xenophanes was already needling this in the sixth century BC: "If oxen could draw gods, they would draw them as oxen."