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Personification vs Personified - What's the difference?

personification | personified |

As a noun personification

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

As a verb personified is

(personify).

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.

    personified

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (personify)

  • personify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
  • Mozart could be said to personify the idea of a musical genius.
  • To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character.
  • The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.