Synonyms for personification
pərˌsɒn ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənper·son·i·fi·ca·tion

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1. personificationnoun

   a person who represents an abstract quality

   "she is the personification of optimism"

   Synonyms:
   incarnation, prosopopoeia

2. personification, prosopopoeianoun

   representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

   Synonyms:
   incarnation, prosopopoeia

3. personification, incarnationnoun

   the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

   Synonyms:
   avatar, incarnation, embodiment, prosopopoeia

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1. • Person

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1. humanize

   to humanize is to make something friendlier to humans.

   they promised to humanize conditions at the company.

   Submitted by rinat on December 2, 2015  

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1. personificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Rhet.) prosopopœia

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1. List of paraphrases for "personification":

   embodiment

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How to use personification in a sentence?

1. Gerry Bowler:

   Merchants seized on this guy right away, they immediately saw the possibility that this personification could be useful in their selling.

2. Ken Wong:

   The thing people are getting excited about with this team is not just how they play, which by itself is important, but it is the whole nature of team and it starts with Leonard, he is the personification of what Canadians want their heroes to be; a stoic, understated, works hard and just goes out and gets the job done.

3. David Letterman:

   We've lost 5,000 fellow New Yorkers, and you can feel it. You can feel it, you can see it, rudolph Giuliani is the personification of courage.

4. Susan J. Bissonette:

   An optimist is the human personification of spring.

5. Louis Pasteur:

   Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.