Need Desperate Help with a word!

[Circle_One]

What's the word that means to give humanistic traits to inanimate objects?

 

[Circle_One]

AH! Nevermind. Got it as soon as I clicked enter.

Anthropomorphizing.... right? Hahaha

 

[.lava]

Anthropomorphizing.... right? Hahaha

O_O yes, right? O_O

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[Madhuri]

Lol! Yes, I can see how it would be easy to forget that word.

 

[Madhuri]

O_O yes, right? O_O

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Isn't English wonderful, lava?

 

[.lava]

Isn't English wonderful, lava?

hmm.. yes but she is called Circle One

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[Kathryn]

There should be a more user friendly word than that!

 

[Circle_One]

There should be a more user friendly word than that!

I'm writing a critical response essay on John Crowe Ransom's Criticism Inc. as applied to the Cyropaedia by Xenophon... I think it's a fine word, hahaha

 

[Panda]

I would use personification myself though I suppose that is more to describe something as human than to give it human attributes.

 

[Alceste]

Personification if you're a writer, anthropomorphism if you're a scientist.