[たいげん, taigen] (n, vs) personification; impersonation; embodiment [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Personification \Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
personnification.]
1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. --C.
Knight.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or
abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with
personality; prosopop[oe]ia; as, the floods clap their
hands. "Confusion heards his voice." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
personification
n 1: a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the
personification of optimism"
2: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or
creature [syn: {personification}, {prosopopoeia}]
3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
ideas etc. [syn: {personification}, {incarnation}]
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