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personalize |
personalized |
personally |
personalty |
personate |
personation
| personator
| personeity
| personhood
| personification
| personifier
personation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun personation has 2 senses
- personation(n = noun.act) impersonation - imitating the mannerisms of another person; Array is a kind of acting, performing, playacting, playing
- personation(n = noun.act) characterization, enactment, portrayal - acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture; Array is a kind of acting, performing, playacting, playing
has particulars: apery, mimicry
Derived form verb personate1
has particulars: impression, character, part, persona, role, theatrical role
Derived form verb personate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
personation, n.
The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
personation
acting, aping, buffoonery, business, characterization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, gag, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, posing, projection, representation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a roleROGET THESAURUS
personation
Imitation
N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.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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