Personification - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|pərˌsɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn|
Brit.
|pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
- a person who represents an abstract quality
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. (syn: incarnation)
she is the personification of optimism
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature (syn: prosopopoeia)- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. (syn: incarnation)
Extra examples
A personification of the phenomena of nature.
He was regarded as the personification of the Latitudinarian spirit.
He became the personification of the financial excess of the 1980s.
Word forms
noun
singular: personification
plural: personifications
singular: personification
plural: personifications
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