Pony General:"Season 12 will never air" edition.

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–adjective
1.
ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.
2.
resembling or made to resemble a human form: an anthropomorphic carving.

So yeah.

Define: Attribute n. a-truh-byoot

something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property.

A few properties exhibited in these anthromorphic ponies:

Consciousness

Cognition

Speech

Written Language

Recorded History

Art

Humour

Mathematics

Understanding of the abstract

Monarchy

Emotion

And for those of you who think your pets have emotions that are anything other than a reflection of your own (read: mistaken)

Complex Human Emotion

So yeah.