In a manner that attributes human form, characteristics, or emotions to non-human things or abstract concepts.
From 'anthropomorphic' + '-ally' (in the manner of). Standard philosophical and literary terminology for describing how humans tend to interpret the world through human frames of reference.
Your brain is hardwired to see human faces and emotions everywhere—that's why you might see a face in clouds or think your robot vacuum is 'angry,' and it's probably the same mechanism that helped our ancestors spot predators!
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