boanthropy

English

Noun

boanthropy (uncountable)

1. (psychiatry) The delusion that one is an ox or cow.
   • 2001, Mark Mangano, Esther & Daniel, page 211:

     Many scholars have diagnosed Nebuchadnezzar's illness as a form of insania zoanthropica, such as boanthropy or lycanthropy, where a human being thinks himself or herself an ox or a wolf.

Related terms

• anthropic
• bovine