| 单词 | personification |
| 释义 | personification (once / 3167 pages) n Personification means "giving humans qualities to an abstract idea," as in a movie villain who is the personification of evil. You can use the noun personification in two ways. In the first, a person who is known for a certain quality, like wisdom, is said to represent that quality in a way any can understand, like a patient, generous person who is the personification of kindness. On the other hand, personification can give human qualities to something that isn’t human. For example, you might say, “The sea is angry,” assigning it a human emotion. WORD FAMILYpersonification: personifications+/depersonalise: depersonalisation, depersonalising/depersonalize: depersonalization, depersonalized, depersonalizing/impersonal: impersonally/interpersonal: interpersonally/nonperson: nonpersons/person: foreperson, nonperson, personable, personal, personhood, personify, persons, unperson/personable: personableness, personabler, personably/personal: impersonal, interpersonal, nonpersonal, personalise, personality, personalize, personally, personals/personalise: depersonalise, personalised, personalising/personality: personalities/personalize: depersonalize, personalized, personalizes, personalizing/personify: personification, personified, personifies, personifying/unperson: unpersons USAGE EXAMPLESWith the incessant stream of Bowie the New Yorker articles, he must be the personification of "New York" values. New York Times(Jan 27, 2016) From a giggly teen viewpoint, “guilty feet” was a hilariously maladroit personification, too fleshy and too cerebral all at once. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) In Trump we see a perfect fusion of the two main uses of celebrity culture: corporate personification and mass distraction. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) 1n the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. Syn|Hyper incarnation embodiment giving concrete form to an abstract concept 2n representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature Syn|Hyper prosopopoeia figure, figure of speech, image, trope language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense 3n a person who represents an abstract quality she is the personification of optimism Hypo|Hyper avatar, embodiment, incarnation a new personification of a familiar idea queensomething personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind deificationan embodiment of the qualities of a god reincarnationembodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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