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Personification - How To Discuss

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David Craig

Updated on June 05, 2026

Personification,

Definition of Personification:

  1. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

  2. Embodying certain characteristics. In the fairy tale, the prince was a stereotypical personification of bravery and chivalry..

  3. Attributing human characteristics or mannerisms to inanimate objects or ideas.

Synonyms of 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

How to use Personification in a sentence?

  1. In those cultures, many scholars and many books would say the same: All these gods are then personification of some nature or phenomenon.

Meaning of Personification & Personification Definition