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Inanimate vs Personification - What's the difference?

inanimate | personification |

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)
  • 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.
  • Antonyms

    * (grammar) animate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not alive.
  • Verb

    (inanimat)
  • (obsolete) To animate.
  • (John Donne)
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    personification

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
  • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  • A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
  • The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
  • An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
  • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.