personification
Collocations
4ADJ.
evil
VERB + PERSONIFICATION
sat, seen
PERSONIFICATION + NOUN
anti-semitism, coolness, inferiority, selfishness
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.
The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.
The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
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Synonyms
noun — the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ide
noun — representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or crea
- prosopopoeia
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
WiktionaryHe might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.
WiktionaryDe Coude was the personification of coolness—was he not the best shot in France?
WiktionaryHe is the personification of selfishness.
Tatoeba · #304608Copernicus turned from a person into a personification.
Tatoeba · #1127416Tom is the personification of an inferiority complex.
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