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noun
An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
The personification of an abstraction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: personification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trope, figure of speech, figure, image
History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”). By surface analysis, prosopo- + -poeia.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
