Definitions for: Personification

[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"

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: incarnation, prosopopoeia

See Also: avatar, embodiment, embodiment, figure, figure of speech, human, image, incarnation, individual, mortal, person, queen, somebody, someone, soul, trope

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