therianthropy

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi/

Noun

therianthropy (uncountable)

  1. (mythology) Shapeshifting between human and animal forms.
  2. (otherkin subculture) The characteristic of being a therianthrope; therianism.
    • 2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, page 142:
      Despite occasional YouTube videos which demonstrate the activities of a 'howl' (a wolf meet), the small amount of existing research into therianthropy as a cultural phenomenon demonstrates that the communities largely exist online and rarely venture into real space.

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