personification
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
[edit] Noun
personification (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 figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction 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.
[edit] Translations
person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
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figure of speech
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artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
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