'Personification' definitions:
Definition of 'personification'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
noun
Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature [syn: personification, prosopopoeia]
noun
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation]
Definition of 'Personification'
From: GCIDE
- Personification \Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. personnification.]
- 1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. --C. Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop[oe]ia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'personification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- transmigration