personification

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification. countable
    — Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  2. An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human. countable
    — The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
  3. The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities. uncountable,usually
    — You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.

词形变化

personifications plural

词汇关系

衍生词
impersonification nonpersonification
相关词
personify pathetic fallacy
并列词
anthropomorphism humanization prosopopoeia

词源

Etymology tree
English person(ify)
English -ification
English personification
From person(ify) + -ification.
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