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Zoanthropy

Definition: Zoanthropy

Zoanthropy

Noun

1. The delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "zoanthropy" was first used: 1856. (references)

Etymology: Zoanthropy \Zo*an"thro*py\, noun. [Greek expression animal man.]. (references)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: Zoanthropy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

zoanthropy

3
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Specialty Definition: Zoanthropy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Zoanthropy is a condition where a human being believes they are really a member of a non-human species of animal. Where the animal species in question is a wolf, the condition is called lycanthropy, although that term is also often used for zoanthropy in general.

Another, more commonly used word for this condition is Therianthropy.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zoanthropy."

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Ancestral Language Translations: Zoanthropy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

zoion. (various references)

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Rhyming with "Zoanthropy"

Words rhyming with "zoanthropy" (pronounced 'Zo*an"thro*py'): Abdominoscopy, AEolotropy, Aeroscopy, Anthroposcopy, Antitypy, Apanthropy, Aphilanthropy, Astroscopy, Auriscopy, Autotypy, balneotherapy, Bumblepuppy, Cerebroscopy, Chappy, Chirrupy, Choppy, Concupy, Courtepy, Cranioscopy, Cuppy, Cynanthropy, Daguerreotypy, Floppy, fluoroscopy, Fool-happy, Galvanoscopy, gastroscopy, Geloscopy, Geoscopy, Happy, harpy, Hemitropy, Hieroscopy, horoscopy, hydrotherapy, isotropy, Lithotypy, Loppy, lycanthropy, Magnetotherapy, Manoscopy, Metallotherapy, Metoposcopy, microscopy, misanthropy, Mishappy, Myopy, Nauscopy, Nyctalopy, Oneiroscopy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Zoanthropy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-n-o-o-p-r-t-y-z"

-3 letters: atrophy, harpoon, patroon, pronota, typhoon.

-4 letters: aroynt, hooray, notary, orphan, pantry, parton, patron, photon, phyton, pronto, proton, python, ratoon, rhyton, tarpon, thorny, thoron, trophy, typhon, zonary.

-5 letters: aport, apron, atony, atopy, azoth, harpy, hoary, honor, hooty, horny, north, ortho, panto, panty, party, payor, phono, phony, photo, porno, porny, pyran, rayon, rhyta, rooty, thorn.

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Alternative Orthography: Zoanthropy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

5A 6F 61 6E 74 68 72 6F 70 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011010 01101111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#90 &#111 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

005A 006F 0061 006E 0074 0068 0072 006F 0070 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

60816780867484818291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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