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Anthropomorphism vs Personification - What's the difference?

anthropomorphism | personification |

As nouns the difference between anthropomorphism and personification

is that anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to that which isn't human while personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

anthropomorphism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to that which isn't human.
  • (theology) the attribution of human characteristics to divine beings

    • Usage notes

    This term carries very different connotations when used in different contexts. In literature, anthropomorphism' describes merely a device of fiction writing, whereas in science (particularly biology) ' anthropomorphism has traditionally been used pejoratively when a scientist appears to be attributing to animals characteristics that are assumed to be exclusive to human beings.

    Related terms

    * anthropomorphic * anthropomorphically

    See also

    * ("anthropomorphism" on Wikipedia) * prosopopoeia * zoomorphism * kemonomimi * nahualism English words suffixed with -ism

    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.