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Personification

A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

📖 Definitions of "Personification"

noun
  1. 1

    A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

    "Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism."

  2. 2

    A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

    "The writer used personification to convey her ideas."

  3. 3

    An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

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