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Dec. 3, 2014
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zoanthropy Audio Pronunciation
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\zoh-AN-thruh-pee\
noun
1. Psychiatry. a mental disorder in which one believes oneself to be an animal.
Quotes
In his book Wolf Child and Human Child, Arnold Gesell gives a striking account, based on the original source material, of the misfortunes of Amala and Kamala, the two best known cases of zoanthropy.
-- Lucien Malson and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature, 1972
Origin
Zoanthropy came to English in the mid-1800s from the New Latin zōanthrōpia based on the Greek ánthrōpos meaning "human being, man."
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