personification
pronunciation
How to pronounce personification in British English:
UK [pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
How to pronounce personification in American English:
US [pərˌsɑnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a person who represents an abstract quality
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Word Origin
- personification (n.)
- 1755, noun of action from personify. Sense of "embodiment of a quality in a person" is attested from 1807.
Example
- 1. He was the absolute personification of misery .
- 2. But there is no doubt that mandela has become its personification .
- 3. Charles zhang is practically the personification of hip , 21st-century china .
- 4. Is criticism of steve jobs whose personification of the brand is a conscious choice by apple unfair ?
- 5. And she became the personification of the struggle for democracy in a country where voices for freedom are quelled .