Personification Definition

pər-sŏnə-fĭ-kāshən
personifications
noun
personifications
The act of personifying.
American Heritage
A personifying or being personified.
Webster's New World
A person or thing thought of as representing some quality, thing, or idea; embodiment; perfect example.
He is the personification of honesty.
Webster's New World
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn.
American Heritage
A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Personification

Noun

Singular:
personification
Plural:
personifications

Origin of Personification

Personification Sentence Examples

  • He was the personification of evil.

  • She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.

  • Her bright and airy living room decor is the personification of spring.

  • It was the personification of an abstract idea.

  • Kant regarded the devil as a personification of the radical evil in man.

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With P and Ending With N

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15 Letter Words15 Letter Words Starting With P15 Letter Words Ending With N