English-Spanish translations for personification

• personificación
  De hecho, en Grecia se dice de usted que es la «personificación de la medida». In fact, in Greece you are thought of as the ‘personification of prudence’.
  Lech Wałęsa es la personificación más prominente de «Solidaridad» y su éxito. Lech Wałęsa is the most prominent personification of Solidarity and its success.
  Este presupuesto es la personificación de la pobreza, es un presupuesto hecho para la minoría de los poderosos y no para la mayoría de los débiles. This budget is the personification of poverty, it is a budget for the few and the powerful and not for the many and the weak.
• prosopopeya

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