personification
A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or ideaA person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
» He is the personification of selfishness.
Значення
значень: 3(злічуване)A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
Personifizierung
олицетворе́ниеolicetvorénije, воплоще́ниеvoploščénije
персоніфіка́ціяpersonifikácija
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
(злічуване)An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.
The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
Personifizierung
персонифика́цияpersonifikácija
a person who represents an abstract quality
(незлічуване, зазвичай)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.
You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.
The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
Personbildung, Personendichtung, Personifikation
персонифика́цияpersonifikácija
персоніфіка́ціяpersonifikácija
Приклади
речень: 4He is the personification of selfishness.
He's seen as the personification of evil.
Copernicus turned from a person into a personification.
Tom is the personification of an inferiority complex.
Переклади
мов: 9За значеннями 1
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Форми
множина: personifications| Однина | personification |
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Синоніми
синонімів: 2- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.:incarnation
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature:prosopopoeia
Спільнокореневі
пов’язаних слів: 4Уроки до слова
уроків: 1- A1Злічувані та незлічувані іменники — Бо воно може бути незлічуваним