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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acting, aping, characterization, corporealization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, incorporation, masquerade, materialization, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, posing, reembodiment, reincarnation, substantiation, transmigration
Dictionary Results for personification:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
personification
    n 1: a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the
         personification of optimism"
    2: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or
       creature [syn: personification, prosopopoeia]
    3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
       ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Personification \Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
   personnification.]
   1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. --C.
      Knight.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or
      abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with
      personality; prosopop[oe]ia; as, the floods clap their
      hands. "Confusion heards his voice." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]
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