Usually means: Attributing human traits to nonhumans.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. personification: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. personification: Merriam-Webster
  3. personification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. personification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. personification: Collins English Dictionary
  6. personification: Vocabulary.com
  7. Personification, personification: Wordnik
  8. personification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. personification: Wiktionary
  10. personification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. personification: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. personification: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Personification, personification: Dictionary.com
  14. personification: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Personification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Personification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. personification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. personification: Rhymezone
  19. Personification: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. personification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. personification: FreeDictionary.org
  22. personification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. personification: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. personification: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PERSONIFICATION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. personification: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personification: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personification: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
noun:  A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
noun:  An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

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