English-French translations for personification

• personnification
  En effet en Grèce, on vous qualifie de «personnification de la modération». In fact, in Greece you are thought of as the ‘personification of prudence’.
  Lech Walesa est la personnification la plus éminente de Solidarité et de son succès. Lech Wałęsa is the most prominent personification of Solidarity and its success.

Definition of personification

• A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification
• A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities
• An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

Examples

• Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
• The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
• The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

Related words

• personifying
• personify
• personified
• personifier