personification
Noun
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Noun
personification
- A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
- Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- 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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