personification
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
personification (countable and uncountable, plural personifications)
- A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
- Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
- The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
- An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
- The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
Translations
person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
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literary device
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artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
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