personification

English

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Etymology

Personify +‎ -ication.

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, prosopopoeia, 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

• Dutch: personificatie f
• Finnish: henkilöitymä
• French: personnification (fr) f
• German: Personifizierung f
• Japanese: 擬人化 (gijinka)

• Papiamentu: personificacion
• Polish: uosobienie n, personifikacja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija f
• Turkish: tecessüm (tr)

figure of speech

• Czech: personifikace f, zosobnění n
• Finnish: henkilöinti, personifikaatio (fi)
• German: Personifizierung f

• Polish: personifikacja (pl) f, uosobienie n
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija f
• Turkish: tecessüm (tr)

artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

• Finnish: henkilöitymä
• German: Personifizierung f
• Italian: personificazione (it) f

• Polish: uosobienie n
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija f
• Turkish: tecessüm (tr)