personification
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
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.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 12:
- He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.
- 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[edit]
person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
literary device
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artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
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