anthropomorphism

noun2

1. •
   The ascribing of human characteristics and behaviors to nonhuman entities.

   • Literature is full of examples of anthropomorphism, especially in children’s stories, from The Wind in the Willows to Watership Down. — 2016
2. •
   The ascribing of human characteristics and behaviors to divine nonhuman entities.

   • Only an over-idealized Hellenism may properly be acutely sensitive to the anthropomorphism of gods, when, in speech and action, they display their human qualities. — 1924