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Mar 12, 2014 This week's theme 20-letter words This week's words polyphiloprogenitive Little Lord Fauntleroy anthropomorphization A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg anthropomorphization PRONUNCIATION: (an-thruh-puh-mor-fy-ZAY-shuhn) MEANING: noun: Attribution of human qualities to things not human. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek anthropo- (human) + morph (form). Earliest documented use: 1880. USAGE: "But for the most part she simply relished the anthropomorphization. That the word pencil was masculine lent each pencil a boyish mischievousness. That flower was feminine endowed flowers with a maternal dignity." Craig Boyko; Blackouts; McClelland & Stewart; 2008. See more usage examples of anthropomorphization in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

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