therianthropy

• IPA^(key): /ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi/

therianthropy (uncountable)

1. (mythology) Shapeshifting between human and animal forms.
2. (fandom slang, otherkin subculture) The characteristic of being a therianthrope; therianism.
   • 2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, page 142:

     Despite occasional YouTube videos which demonstrate the activities of a 'howl' (a wolf meet), the small amount of existing research into therianthropy as a cultural phenomenon demonstrates that the communities largely exist online and rarely venture into real space.

• lycanthropy
• therianthrope
• therianthropic
• theriotype