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单词 hippanthropy
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hippanthropyn.

Brit. /hɪˈpanθrəpi/, U.S. /hɪˈpænθrəpi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin hippanthropia.
Etymology: < scientific Latin hippanthropia (1810 or earlier) < hippo- hippo- comb. form + ancient Greekἄνθρωπος human (see anthropo- comb. form) + classical Latin -ia -y suffix3. Compare earlier cynanthropy n., lycanthropy n.Compare French hippanthropie (1810 or earlier), German Hippanthropie (1795 or earlier), Italian ippantropia (1828 or earlier). Compare also Hellenistic Greek ἱππάνθρωπος centaur.
Somewhat rare.
The delusional belief that one is a horse; an instance of this.
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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).
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