Anthropomorphism
The term Anthropomorphism can be defined as the interpretation of nonhuman things or or nonhuman events in terms of human characteristics. For example, when one senses malice in a computer or one might hear human voices in the wind. The word is derived from the Greek words, anthropos (“human”) and morphe (“form”). This specific term was first employed to refer to the attribution of human physical or that of the mental features to deities. By the mid-19th century, the word had acquired the second and much broader meaning of a phenomenon occurring not only restricted in religion but in varied domains of human thought and action, like daily life, the arts or artistic thought lines, and even different area of natural or social sciences. Anthropomorphism might occur both consciously or unconsciously. It is agreed that the tendency to anthropomorphize hinders clear understanding of the world, but it is quite deep-seated and persistent.