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
Other Word Forms of Personification
Noun
Singular:
personificationPlural:
personificationsOrigin of Personification
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Personify +"Ž -ication.
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