Personification vs Possession - What's the difference?
personification | possession |
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
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(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
As nouns the difference between personification and possession
is that personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As a verb possession is
to invest with property.personification
English
(wikipedia personification)Noun
(en noun)- Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
- The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.