One means exactly the other.

Anthropomorphic: attribution of human characteristics to nonhumans: the attribution of a human form, human characteristics, or human behavior to nonhuman things, e.g. deities in mythology and animals in children’s stories
(MSN Encarta online dictionary)

an·thro·po·mor·phic Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthrōpomorphos, from
1 : described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes 2 : ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
— an·thro·po·mor·phi·cal·ly Listen to the pronunciation of anthropomorphically \-fi-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
(Merriam Webster Online)

But all that’s just dictionary babble… One’s furry if one considers him or herself furry, that’s what matters, not what furry precicely is or isnt. Opinions differ about that too much anyway, and there’s more myth then fact about furries going around to give a sound definition of what furry really is.

I been a little confused about this, different people told me different things. I concider myself neko as well, but not as in part cat-human, but a fox-human.
So if my avatar doesnt fall under the Neko term, what the heck am I? :0
Kitsune seems to me another possibility, but I dont have multiple tails nor am I any sort of magic user (following Japanese culture Kitsunes are magical foxes that can shapeshift and make themselves look complete human as well as part human…)

I dunno what I am, not that it matters a whole lot, but it’s nice to have an answer when people ask about the tail and ears :3

Visually, nekos and furries can be similar, nekos are human with animal qualities and furries are animals with human qualities. However speaking of community and achetypes, nekos and furries are completely different. Furries have carved out their own little niche community with defined standards, conventions, profiles, and fetishes, whereas Nekos have almost no community and what little they have is more based around anime if anything, nekos tend to have no defined types, and people who are nekos range all over the place, there is very little sense of neko community really.

Basically, saying nekos and furries have little to no difference is like saying baseball and cricket have little to no difference, they may look a like, but they act completely different.

“Artemis Fate, you just call him gay because your marriage is unhappy. Artemis you hate Hip Hop culture anyway, I remember when I first met you all because dressed a certain way you said “you think because you dress that way, that you are a thug?” Kinda weird, I think Hilter passed the hate to you lol! You can spamm my in world ims, but i dont ccare”

Wha? Where’d that come from?

Simple: there is little to no difference between neko and furry.

Neko is what the Japanese call a human-animal mix (and in particular, cat-human mix), and furry is what the western kids call it.

Either way, it’s anthropomorphic: putting human looks or characteristics on something not human.
(note that this can also be the brave little toaster: not human doesn’t have to mean animal.)

Anthropommorphic animal is a bit long to say, so we shortened and ‘cute-ified’ it a little.
And because most people like the fuzzy animals, mammals, furry is what the term became. of course there’s ‘scalies’ as well, for those who like reptiles better and have a reptile AV, but it still falls under the blanket term furry.

Of course, those who adore catgirls and absolutely loathe furries, will disagree and say neko is totally unlike furry in each and every aspect: and they have a point when they say that with Neko the mix has more human then animal in it. But that’s merely an issue of not wanting to be associated with furries for whatever silly reasons people might have for disliking us.

There is however a seperate term for those cases where the animal part in the mix is substantially larger then the human part, and this is called “Kemono” if I’m correct.

So one could say that if the mix is closer to human, it’s neko, if it’s got more of the animal traits it’s furry or kemono. it’s a huge grey area really that on the whole, is pretty unimportant ^.^

To Jonas: If you consider yourself a furry, you are one, very simple ^.^ There’s not a set of rules you have to comply to to be a furry, other then if you consider yourself one or not. If you ask 100 furries what furry is or what it is about, you’ll get 110 different answers.
Anyone telling you otherwise is wrong or simply misinformed.

Wikipedia tells me i’m a special unique snowflake!