personification

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

personification (plural personifications)

1. A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

   Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

2. A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.

   The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

3. 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

Croatian: personifikacija (hr) f. Dutch: personificatie (nl) f. Finnish: henkilöitymä (fi) French: personnification (fr) f.

German: Personifizierung (de) f. Japanese: 擬人化 (ja) (gijinka) Papiamentu: personificacion Polish: personifikacja (pl) f., uosobienie (pl) n.

figure of speech

Croatian: personifikacija (hr) f. Czech: personifikace (cs) f., zosobnění (cs) n. Finnish: henkilöinti (fi), personifikaatio (fi)

German: Personifizierung (de) f. Polish: personifikacja (pl) f., uosobienie (pl) n.

artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

Croatian: personifikacija (hr) f. Finnish: henkilöitymä (fi) German: Personifizierung (de) f.

Italian: personificazione (it) f. Polish: uosobienie (pl) n.