PERSONIFICATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does personification mean?
• PERSONIFICATION (noun)
The noun PERSONIFICATION has 3 senses:
1. a person who represents an abstract quality
2. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
3. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Familiarity information: PERSONIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PERSONIFICATION (noun)
Meaning:
A person who represents an abstract quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
she is the personification of optimism
Hypernyms ("personification" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personification"):
avatar; embodiment; incarnation (a new personification of a familiar idea)
queen (something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind)
Meaning:
Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
prosopopoeia; personification
Hypernyms ("personification" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Meaning:
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
personification; incarnation
Hypernyms ("personification" is a kind of...):
embodiment (giving concrete form to an abstract concept)
