单词 | hippanthropy |
释义 | hippanthropyn. Somewhat rare. The delusional belief that one is a horse; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion lycanthropy1584 cynanthropy1594 hob-thrush1658 wolf-madness1663 syphilomania1815 hippanthropy1847 zoanthropy1856 boanthropy1864 megalomania1885 plutomania1890 uranomania1890 micromania1892 delusions of grandeur1909 omnipotence1916 nihilism1927 apophenia1959 apophany1960 sundowner1974 sundowning1978 1847 in Walton's Compl. Angler (new ed.) I. 113 (note) Among the many strange delusions which have afflicted men, that of supposing themselves transformed into brutes of various kinds, such as horses (hippanthropy), dogs (cynanthropy), wolves (lycanthropy) or others, has been so frequent as to give names to several forms of mania. 1980 L. M. P. T. Wijsen Cognition & Image Formation in Lit. Introd. 12 If the reader were to explain the experience [sc. the transformation of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Metamorphosis] as a misleading hypnopompic image, the product of a discredited, altered state of consciousness, or a hebephrenic type of schizophrenia, like that of a hippanthropy, he would no longer respond to the text. 2005 Mod. Lang. Rev. 100 8 Knocked sideways by the repulsion of recognition (that he [sc. Gulliver] is Yahoo), he clings to the attraction of emulation with an intensity that is clinically hippanthropy, and certainly asinine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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