Why this word is great
DEANTHROPOMORPHIZE — [Verb] To cease to anthropomorphize; no longer to regard (a deity, etc.) as having attributes of human beings. From de- ("reverse, remove") + anthropomorphize ("attribute human characteristics to"). Unlike "anthropomorphize" (which projects human traits onto the non-human) or "objectify" (which reduces the human to the inanimate), "deanthropomorphize" is the deliberate stripping away of human-shaped illusions. It is the moment a child realizes their stuffed bear does not feel pain, the slow erasure of a god’s face from the stained-glass window, or the astronomer’s cold calculus that reduces the moon from a silver goddess to a cratered rock—the quiet, necessary work of seeing the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.