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personifications

personifications is the plural of personification.

Meaning of personification

Noun

personification (countable and uncountable, plural personifications)

  1. (countable) A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
    • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  2. (countable) An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.
    • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
  3. (uncountable, usually) 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.

Questions about personifications

What is personifications the plural of?
Personifications is the plural of personification.

Words near personifications in the dictionary

  1. personificate
  2. personificated
  3. personificates
  4. personificating
  5. personification
  6. personifications
  7. personificative
  8. personificator
  9. personificators
  10. personified
  11. personifier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personifications (page history and authors); personification (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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