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personification

noun as in human characteristics

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Blues with a country beat, the fusion of black and white, had found its personification in Elvis.

Throughout Fault in Our Stars, Gus is the personification of strength and confidence.

In 1968, Ted Nugent was a lightning rod, a personification of transformational freedom.

Quell is a feral creature; a personification of the Freudian id.

Loud, overbearing, and unseemly, he is the very personification of the human id in a mock turtleneck and gold chain.

Chaucer probably found this name precisely where he found his personification of Pity, viz.

I had at first thought it might be "rumorous eyes;" but the personification would then be wanting.

Cyrano, who put to flight one hundred men, could not be expected to fear a person, much less a personification.

Then she moved away to the music, an exquisite figure, the personification of all that was alluring in her sex.

While some are held up as models of virtue, others may be regarded as the very personification of evil.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to personification, such as: role, and prosopopeia.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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