A form of madness involving the delusion of being an animal, with correspondingly altered behaviour.
Example sentencesExamples
Individual zoanthropy occurs chiefly during a hysterical attack.
Among the more illiterate classes, to be possessed with the spirit of a fox is a form of zoanthropy not infrequently met with.
He was afflicted with a psychotic disorder called zoanthropy, and was reduced to acting like a brute beast of the field.
Intimations of zoanthropy and diabolical rites also attend the depiction of New York's financial world in David DeCoteau's low-budget horror movie Wolves of Wall Street (2002).
She has zoanthropy like her father, and turns into a tiger!