Definitions by WillfullyUnsmelling

anthroposcotist

One who deploys the charge of anthropomorphism as an intellectual cudgel to extinguish, trivialize, or dismiss the overwhelmingly evidenced sentient, emotional, and social interior lives of non-human creatures — typically to preserve personal comfort, economic convenience, or ideological position — while performing the posture of scientific rigor they do not actually possess.

She waved away decades of elephant grief research with a tired sigh — a classic anthroposcotist, brandishing the word 'anthropomorphism' like a blindfold she'd sewn for herself.

anthroposcotist by WillfullyUnsmelling April 24, 2026