inanimate object
object that is not animate. doesn't breathe, change, or live. examples are tape, lamp, pemcil, desk, building, kleenex.
inanimate object by SAMiiZLe September 25, 2006
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inanimate object
According to Wilfrid Sellars, inanimate objects are actually "truncated persons": "Nature became the locus of 'truncated persons' (...) not, however, because a *new* category of impersonal things and impersonal processes had been achieved, but because the category of *person* is now applied to these things in a pruned or truncated form" (Wilfrid Sellars _Science, Perception and Reality_ 13).
Another way of saying this is that, at some former time, everything in the environment---including what we now refer to as "inanimate objects" were once afforded the full range of qualities associated with "personhood."
Another way of saying this is that, at some former time, everything in the environment---including what we now refer to as "inanimate objects" were once afforded the full range of qualities associated with "personhood."
inanimate object by madeggs April 4, 2010
Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED)
Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) is an armchair-psychological designation for people who experience extreme amounts of empathy for inanimate objects -- specifically objects that depict living things that appear damaged or distressed.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
Using the term Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) in context: Because my wife has IOED, when she found 2 stuffed animals on the road, disheveled, she felt a burning desire to "save" them and "nurse them back to health" in our home. Now, thanks to her IOED, we have a new shelf in our family room with "recovering" stuffed animals on it that fill her heart with joy every day.
Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) by NewPOV January 22, 2025
An Inanimate Fucking Object
Chris: FUCK YOU YOU CHEATING BITCH! *Throws phone*
Kevin: Chris! It's a inanimate fucking object.
Chris: YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!!!
Kevin: Chris! It's a inanimate fucking object.
Chris: YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!!!
An Inanimate Fucking Object by MonkeyDGoofy September 19, 2011
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