Personification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 endowed with
        personality; prosopop[oe]ia; as, the floods clap their
        hands. "Confusion heards his voice." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  personification
       n 1: a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the
            personification of optimism"
       2: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or
          creature [syn: {prosopopoeia}]
       3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
          ideas etc. [syn: {incarnation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "personification":
     acting, aping, characterization, corporealization, dumb show,
     embodiment, enacting, enactment, imitation, impersonation,
     incarnation, incorporation, masquerade, materialization,
     metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, pantomime,
     pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, playing,
     portrayal, posing, reembodiment, reincarnation, substantiation,
     transmigration