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Personification vs Anamorphism - What's the difference?

personification | anamorphism |

As nouns the difference between personification and anamorphism

is that personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification while anamorphism is (computer science) a generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras.

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.

    anamorphism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer science) a generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras