personification

B2 FREQ #48711

n. 拟人, 人格化, 拟人法, 化身, 象征

发音

US /pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/

词形变化

personifications 复数 personifications

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

    拟人

    可数 不可数

    Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

  2. 2.

    An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.

    可数 不可数

    The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

  3. 3.

    The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

    人格化形象

    不可数 可数

    You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.

    The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

incarnation prosopopoeia

上位词 10

someone person somebody figure soul image individual mortal embodiment figure of speech

下位词 4

queen avatar incarnation embodiment

词源

From person(ify) + -ification.

来源：wiktionary