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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Personification has 3 senses
- personification(n = noun.person) Array - a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- personification(n = noun.communication) prosopopoeia - representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; Array is a kind of figure, figure of speech, image, trope
- personification(n = noun.act) incarnation - the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.; Array is a kind of embodiment
has particulars: avatar, embodiment, incarnation, queen
Derived form verb personify1
Derived form verb personify1
Derived form verb personify3
CIDE DICTIONARY
Personification, n. [Cf. F. personnification.].
- The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight. [1913 Webster]
- A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. Milton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Personification, n.
1 the act of personifying.
2 (foll. by of) a person or thing viewed as a striking example of (a quality etc.) (the personification of ugliness).
1 the act of personifying.
2 (foll. by of) a person or thing viewed as a striking example of (a quality etc.) (the personification of ugliness).
THESAURUS
Personification
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, transmigrationROGET THESAURUS
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Metaphor
N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.Representation
N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.
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