personification
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who represents an abstract quality
she is the personification of optimism
Types & categories
- person hypernym
- embodiment hyponym
- queen hyponym
Related & opposite
- body derivation
Sense 2 noun
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Types & categories
- trope hypernym
Related & opposite
- body derivation
Sense 3 noun
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Types & categories
- embodiment hypernym
Related & opposite
- personate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | body |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | embodiment |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | queen |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | body |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | trope |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | personate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | embodiment |