What is it when an inanimate object has human-like characteristics?

Question

What term is that? Personification?

Answer 1

Personification - - I believe is the correct answer

Answer 2

Personification is correct in sense of an inanimate object being attributed with some human personality trait, whereas anthropomorphism is when something is attributed with a human physical trait. Anthropomorphise (the act of ascribing an anthropomorphic trait to an object) is quite a mouthful though...

Answer 3

personification

1. the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3. the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.
4. an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.
5. the act of personifying.
6. a character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work.

Answer 4

Personification (however plant and animals can be personified, even though they are not inanimate, they just dont need to be human.)

Answer 5

Yes, personification.

Answer 6

anthropomorphic.


Main Entry: an·thro·po·mor·phic
Pronunciation: "an(t)-thr&-p&-'mor-fik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthrOpomorphos, from anthrOp- + -morphos -morphous
1 : described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes
2 : ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things

Answer 7

anthropomorphic

–adjective 1. ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity.


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an·thro·po·mor·phic /ˌænθrəpəˈmɔrfɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[an-thruh-puh-mawr-fik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective 1. ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity.

2. resembling or made to resemble a human form: an anthropomorphic carving.

Also, an·thro·po·mor·phous.


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[Origin: 1820–30; anthropo- + -morphic]

Answer 8

anthropomorphization (from Greek "human + form")

It means to assign human characteristics to a non-human animal or object.

Answer 9

Personification, hope that this will help =)

Answer 10

biomorphic perhaps.