personification

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• /pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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From person(ify) + -ification.

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَجْسِيد (tajsīd) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Azerbaijani: təcəssüm — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Bulgarian: олицетворение (olicetvorenie) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Catalan: personificació — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Chinese Mandarin: 擬人 /拟人 (nǐrén) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Danish: personificering — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Dutch: personificatie — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Dutch: verpersoonlijking — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Finnish: henkilöitymä — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• French: personnification — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Galician: personificación — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Georgian: გაპიროვნება (gaṗirovneba) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Georgian: პერსონიფიკაცია (ṗersonipiḳacia) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• German: Personifizierung — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Greek: προσωποποίηση (prosopopoíisi) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Hungarian: megtestesülés — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Hungarian: megtestesítő — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Hungarian: megtestesült — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Indonesian: personifikasi — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Japanese: 擬人化 (gijinka) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Malay: personifikasi — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Norwegian Bokmål: personifikasjon — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Norwegian Bokmål: personifisering — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Norwegian Nynorsk: personifikasjon — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Norwegian Nynorsk: personifisering — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Papiamentu: personificacion — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Polish: uosobienie — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Polish: personifikacja — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Polish: wcielenie — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Portuguese: personificação — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Russian: олицетворе́ние (olicetvorénije) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Russian: воплоще́ние (voploščénije) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Spanish: personificación — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Swedish: personifikation — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Turkish: tecessüm — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Ukrainian: персоніфіка́ція (personifikácija) — person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea
• Catalan: personificació — literary device
• Catalan: prosopopeia — literary device
• Chinese Mandarin: 人格化形象 (réngéhuà xíngxiàng) — literary device
• Czech: personifikace — literary device
• Czech: zosobnění — literary device
• Danish: personificering — literary device
• Dutch: personificatie — literary device
• Finnish: henkilöinti — literary device
• Finnish: personifikaatio — literary device
• Galician: personificación — literary device
• German: Personbildung — literary device
• German: Personendichtung — literary device
• German: Personifikation — literary device
• German: Prosopopöie — literary device
• German: Personifizierung — literary device
• Hungarian: megszemélyesítés — literary device
• Polish: personifikacja — literary device
• Polish: uosobienie — literary device
• Portuguese: personificação — literary device
• Russian: персонифика́ция (personifikácija) — literary device
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija — literary device
• Spanish: personificación — literary device
• Spanish: prosopopeya — literary device
• Spanish: metagoge — literary device
• Swedish: personifikation — literary device
• Tagalog: pagsasatao — literary device
• Thai: บุคคลวัต — literary device
• Turkish: tecessüm — literary device
• Ukrainian: персоніфіка́ція (personifikácija) — literary device
• Welsh: personoliad — literary device
• Azerbaijani: şəxsləndirmə — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Basque: pertsonifikazio — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Bulgarian: въплъщение (vǎplǎštenie) — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Catalan: personificació — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Danish: personificering — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Dutch: personificatie — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Finnish: henkilöitymä — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Galician: personificación — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• German: Personifizierung — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Hungarian: megszemélyesítés — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Italian: personificazione — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Norwegian Bokmål: personifikasjon — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Norwegian Bokmål: personifisering — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Norwegian Nynorsk: personifikasjon — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Norwegian Nynorsk: personifisering — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Polish: uosobienie — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Polish: animizacja — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Polish: ożywienie — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Portuguese: personificação — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Russian: персонифика́ция (personifikácija) — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Serbo-Croatian: personifikacija — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Spanish: personificación — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
• Turkish: tecessüm — artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human