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The delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal
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zoanthropy
Word definitions for zoanthropy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zoanthropy \Zo*an"thro*py\, n. [Gr. ? animal + ? man.] (Med.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A kind of delusion in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals. http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/dict?name=webster&lang=en&word=zoanthropy&
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
form of insanity in which a man imagines himself to be another type of beast, 1845, from French zoanthrope or directly from Modern Latin zoanthropia , from Greek zoion "animal" (see zoo ) + anthropos "man" (see anthropo- ).