2. The ascription of a human form and attributes to God.
3. The use of language that is applicable to men when speaking about God; anthropomorphology.
4. The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.
5. Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
In religion and mythology, anthropomorphism refers to the attribution of a human body or of human qualities generally, to a divine being or beings.
Many mythologies are almost entirely concerned with anthropomorphic deities who express human characteristics; such as, jealousy, hatred, or love.
The Greek gods; for example, Zeus and Apollo were often depicted in human form exhibiting both commendable and despicable human traits.
Anthropomorphism is a form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similarly to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person), is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, or natural phenomena.
Animals, forces of nature, and unseen or unknown authors of chance are frequent subjects of anthropomorphosis.
What a strange monster is man; a curiosity, a prodigy, a chaos, a contradiction, judge of all things and wretched earthworm, repository of truth and sewer of doubt and error, glory and dross of the universe.