"Origins of words" by Susie Dent, Countdown 01/12/17 (words from root "anthropos")

Today I/m going to unpick a set of words that all come from a common root and it's a beutiful root, it's Greek, anthropos, which mean humankind so man, woman, a human being and it turns out it's the mother of a very large family of words in Ehglish. The most obvious one probably is anthropology which is, of course, the science of human beings, so it's a study of its customs, their beliefs and their physical characteristics, but that's not the only one, by any means. For example, if we assign human emotions and human attributes to animals or to inanimate objects, we're anthropomorphising them. Cartoons like Finding Nemo, Jungle Book, etc, do this all the time aut also in English and language when we talk about the hands of the time or the eye of the storm, that's what we're doing. We're anthropomorphising. There's also a great term, resistentialism, which is a much newer coinage and that's the belief that inanimate objects really have it in you so that if you toast lands butter down, which it always does, that is resistentialism, or if you bump into a sofa, it's the sofa fault, etc. Anyway, that's nothing to do with mankind, I just like that word. Anthropocentric means centring on human beings so that's the belief that human and humanity stands at the centre of everything, and everything revolves around us. But finaly we come to misanthrope, and a misanthrope again has that anthropos within it, the mankind, and it also has the Greek word for hate, miseo, so, a misanthrope, really, is a cynical, unfortunate, absolute hater of humankind.