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Personification vs Anthropomorphic - What's the difference?

personification | anthropomorphic |

As a noun personification

is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

As an adjective anthropomorphic is

having the form of a person or a human being.

personification

English

(wikipedia 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.

    anthropomorphic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the form of a person or a human being
  • (of inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human entities) Given attributes of human beings.
  • * 1909 , The Quarterly Review , p. 124:
    • The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.

    Derived terms

    * anthropomorphically

    See also

    * anthropomorphism * anthropologic * theriomorphic