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Definition of personification noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

personification

noun
 
/pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/
 
/pərˌsɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/
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  1. [countable, usually singular] personification of something a person who has a lot of a particular quality or characteristic synonym epitome
    • She was the personification of elegance.
  2. [uncountable, countable] the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature; an object, quality, etc. that is represented in this way
    • the personification of autumn in Keats’s poem
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