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personifying

personifying is the present participle and gerund of personify.

Meaning of personify

Verb

personify (third-person singular simple present personifies, present participle personifying, simple past and past participle personified)

  1. (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
    • Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
    Antonyms:
    unpersonify
  2. (transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
    • The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
    Antonyms:
    unpersonify

Noun

personifying (countable and uncountable, plural personifyings)

  1. Personification.
    • […] rejecting poetic pantheism and sentimental Romantic personifyings of inanimate things.1960, John Cowie Reid, Francis Thompson: Man and Poet, page 179

Forms of personifying

pluralpersonifyings

Questions about personifying

What does personifying mean?
Personifying means personification.
What is personifying the present participle and gerund of?
Personifying is the present participle and gerund of personify.
What part of speech is personifying?
Personifying is a noun.
What is the plural of personifying?
The plural of personifying is personifyings.

Words near personifying in the dictionary

  1. personified
  2. personifier
  3. personifiers
  4. personifies
  5. personify
  6. personifying
  7. personifyings
  8. personing
  9. personing up
  10. personise
  11. personised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personifying (page history and authors); personify (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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