personification
Etymology
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Etymology
From personify + -ification.
Pronunciation- IPA: /pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
personification
- A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
- Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC ↗, 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.
- French: personnification
- German: Personifizierung
- Portuguese: personificação
- Russian: олицетворе́ние
- Spanish: personificación
- German: Personbildung, Personendichtung, Personifikation, Prosopopöie, Personifizierung
- Portuguese: personificação
- Russian: персонифика́ция
- Spanish: personificación, prosopopeya
- German: Personifizierung
- Italian: personificazione
- Portuguese: personificação
- Russian: персонифика́ция
- Spanish: personificación
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