personification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who represents an abstract quality
    • she is the personification of optimism
  2. noun representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
    prosopopoeia.
  3. noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
    incarnation.

WordNet

Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. personnification.
Definitions
  1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.
  2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton.

Webster 1913