Personify vs Anthropomorphize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between personify and anthropomorphize

is that personify is to be an example of; to have all the attributes of while anthropomorphize is to endow with human qualities.

(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.

* anthropomorphise (non-Oxford British spelling)

To endow with human qualities.

To attribute human characteristics to something that is non-human.