PERSONIFICATION: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | pur`sânifi'keyshun
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- [n] the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- [n] representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
- [n] a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
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| | Synonyms: | | incarnation, prosopopoeia |
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| | See Also: | | avatar, embodiment, embodiment, figure, figure of speech, human, image, incarnation, individual, mortal, person, queen, somebody, someone, soul, trope | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | acting, aping, characterization, corporealization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, incorporation, masquerade, materialization, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, posing, reembodiment, reincarnation, substantiation, transmigration |
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