- Representation of something inanimate or abstract as having personality or the qualities, thoughts, or movements of a living human being. For example, Liberty is portrayed as a woman raising a torch. This is also called prosopopeia. Also see allegory, anthropomorphism, content, sign, signature, and symbol.
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Personification — is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person. [ [http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsPersonification.htm What is personification ] from SIL International] The term… … Wikipedia
personification — [pər sän΄ə fi kā′shən] n. 1. a personifying or being personified 2. a person or thing thought of as representing some quality, thing, or idea; embodiment; perfect example [he is the personification of honesty] 3. a figure of speech in which a… … English World dictionary
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Personification — Personification, jede Redefigur, durch die das Leblose belebt, d. h. redend oder handelnd eingeführt wird, z. B. die Blätter lispeln mir Deinen Namen zu. B–l … Damen Conversations Lexikon
Personification — Personification, rhetorische u. poetische Figur, worin ein lebloser Gegenstand personificirt d.h. als lebend gedacht und angeredet wird … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
personification — index embodiment Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
personification — 1755, noun of action from PERSONIFY (Cf. personify). Sense of embodiment of a quality in a person is attested from 1807 … Etymology dictionary
personification — The term personification comes from the Latin words persona (mask, person) and facere (to make). It is used to denote a * compound hallucination depicting a human being. Karl Jaspers (1883 1969) credits the German chemist Ludwig Staudenmaier… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
personification — per|son|i|fi|ca|tion [pəˌsɔnıfıˈkeıʃən US pərˌsa: ] n 1.) the personification of sth someone who is a perfect example of a quality because they have a lot of it ▪ He became the personification of the financial excess of the 1980s. 2.) [U and C]… … Dictionary of contemporary English
personification — [[t]pə(r)sɒ̱nɪfɪke͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] personifications 1) N SING: usu the N of n If you say that someone is the personification of a particular thing or quality, you mean that they are a perfect example of that thing or that they have a lot of that… … English dictionary
personification — personificator, n. /peuhr son euh fi kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure. 2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a… … Universalium