Personifying

Synonyms for "personifying" (37 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Noun(7 words)
animal character statusanimating descriptionanthropomorphicanthropomorphic usageanthropomorphismanthropomorphizedepict

Strong matches (11)

Related words (18)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries
actanthropomorphismfigurative languagegrammatical terminterpretationlinguistic categorylinguistic devicelinguistic featurerhetorical device

More specific

18 entries
animal personificationanthropomorphic traitanthropomorphismanthropomorphizationfigurative portrayalgerundhuman representationhumanizationinanimate object personificationmetaphorical embodimentnature personificationnominalizationpathetic fallacypersonified metaphorscreen characterizationstage portrayal

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

17 entries
act of personifyinganthropomorphic depictionanthropomorphic imageryanthropomorphic portrayalanthropomorphism tropefigurative languagehumanlike depictionhumanlike portrayalpersonification devicepersonified figurepersonifying descriptionpersonifying devicepersonifying languagepersonifying metaphorpersonifying stancepersonifying traits

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Inflections

5 entries
more personifyingmost personifyingpersonifiedpersonifiespersonifyings

Derivations

5 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The actor must be prepared at the time of personifying a character.

Source: tatoeba (1210022)

[…] rejecting poetic pantheism and sentimental Romantic personifyings of inanimate things.

Source: wiktionary

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