Inanimate vs Personification - What's the difference?
inanimate | personification |
Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
Not being, and never having been alive.
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(grammar) Not animate.
(obsolete) To animate.
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
As nouns the difference between inanimate and personification
is that inanimate is something that is not alive while personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.As an adjective inanimate
is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.As a verb inanimate
is to animate.inanimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.}}
Antonyms
* (grammar) animateVerb
(inanimat)- (John Donne)
personification
English
(wikipedia personification)Noun
(en noun)- Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
- The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.