Definitions for personification

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personification per·son·i·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [per-son-uh-fi-key-shuh n]

IPA: /pərˌsɒn ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Personification is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 3029 anagrams from letters in personification (acefiiinnooprst).

Definitions for personification

noun

1. the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3. the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation:
4. an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.
5. the act of personifying; the attributing of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstraction:
6. a character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work.

Origin of personification

First recorded in 1745-55; personi(fy) + -fication

Examples for personification

He is rather the personification in painting of the soul of Dante.

The goddess has also been regarded as a personification of water, the ocean, or its foam.

Blues with a country beat, the fusion of black and white, had found its personification in Elvis.

Allatu would, according to this view, be a personification of the 'earth.'

Throughout Fault in Our Stars, Gus is the personification of strength and confidence.

In 1968, Ted Nugent was a lightning rod, a personification of transformational freedom.

Quell is a feral creature; a personification of the Freudian id.

In such case Notscha would be a personification of the thunder.

Greenwald is the personification of the paranoid streak in American politics.

You are the personification of fortune, of beauty, and of youth, my dear Seigneur; my only pleasure is in you.