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personification

noun
/pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From person(ify) + -ification.

  1. derived from personnifier
  2. suffixed as personification — “personify + ification”

Definitions

  1. A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea

    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.
    • De Coude was the personification of coolness—was he not the best shot in France?

  2. An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.

    • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

  3. The process of creating such a representation

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

impersonification, nonpersonification

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at personification. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at personification. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at personification

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA