zoomorphizinghttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoomorphizing_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoomorphizing, n.
Revised 2017

zoomorphizingnoun

  1. 1895–
    The action of attributing an animal form or nature to a person or thing. Cf. zoomorphize v.
    1. 1895
      In the zoomorphising of everything we have the raw material..of myth, custom, and belief.
      Academy 9 February 131/3
    2. 1961
      This kind of zoomorphizing..makes a simple animal out of a man.
      American Scientist December 534
    3. 1992
      Kekule's daydream was the zoomorphizing of the conventional graphical symbolizations of molecular structures.
      D. M. Locke, Sci. As Writing 28
    4. 2014
      Zoomorphizing aside, the current notion that animals can be our teachers needs to be tempered.
      Cumberland (Maryland) Times News 7 September c6/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoomorphize, v.

zoomorphizing, n. was revised in June 2017.

zoomorphizing, n. was last modified in July 2023.