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Word entry · 15 letters

personification

Best crossword clue

"Human traits for ideas"

15 letters · collected on this word page

15 lettersPronunciation /pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted acefiiinnooprstStarts with PEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

Word origin

From person(ify) + -ification.

Used in a sentence

  • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  • He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.
  • De Coude was the personification of coolness—was he not the best shot in France?

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