[1885–90; anthropo- + -genic]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: sensitization, toner, twofer, upsweep, zoomanthropo- is a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “human,” used in the formation of compoundwords. Other words that use the affix anthropo- include: anthropocentric, anthropography, anthropometer, anthropomorphic, anthroponomy; -genic is a combining form often corresponding to nouns ending in -gen or -geny, with the following senses: “producing or causing” (hallucinogenic); “produced or caused by” (cosmogenic); “pertaining to a gene or genes” (polygenic); “pertaining to suitability for reproduction by a medium” (telegenic)
Examples of 'anthropogenic' in a sentence
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Ocean temperatures show warming signatures that are inexplicable without anthropogenic greenhouse forcing.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Human production drives environmental upheaval, closing the 'gap between natural and anthropogenic catastrophe'.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
But perhaps the greatest threat to cetaceans is anthropogenic sound.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Among those concerns, we can now surely rule out the fear of anthropogenic climate change.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A weight of scientific opinion favours the theory of anthropogenic climate change and in particular the importance of carbon emissions.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
It is one of the best known and most widely reproduced images evidencing anthropogenic inputs to atmospheric climate change.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
Only if anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gases are included do the models replicate what has actually happened.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
To invoke a recent 'roughly static' period to suggest that anthropogenic climate change can now be forgotten is scientifically wrong.