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Personify vs Symbolise - What's the difference?

personify | symbolise | Synonyms |

Personify is a synonym of symbolise.


As verbs the difference between personify and symbolise

is that personify is to be an example of; to have all the attributes of while symbolise is .

As an adjective symbolise is

symbolized.

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.

    Related terms

    * personification

    symbolise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * symbolize (US )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To be symbolic of; to represent.
    • The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
  • * 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
    • [H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.