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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Greek anthr?popatheia humanity, from Greek anthr?popath?s having human feelings, from anthr?p- + pathos experience — more at pathos Date: 1847 the ascription of human feelings to something not human

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anthropopathism An`thro*pop"a*thism, Anthropopathy An`thro*pop"a*thy, n. [Gr. ?; ? man + ? suffering, affection, passion, ?, ?, to suffer.] The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. --Hare.