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4 dictionary results for: Personification
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
per·son·i·fi·ca·tion       [per-son-uh-fi-key-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
2.the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3.the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.
4.an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.
5.the act of personifying.
6.a character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work.
[Origin: 1745–55; personi(fy) + -fication]

—Related forms
per·son·i·fi·ca·tor, noun
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per·son·i·fi·ca·tion       (pər-sŏn'ə-fĭ-kā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act of personifying.
  2. A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative" (Ralph Ellison).
  3. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia.
  4. Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.

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personification

noun
1. a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism" 
2. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature 
3. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. 

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Personification

Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. personnification.]

1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. --C. Knight.

2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop?ia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." --Milton.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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