Usually means: Attributing human traits to non-humans.
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  1. personifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. personifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. personifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. personifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Personifying, personifying: Wordnik
  6. personifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. personifying: Wiktionary
  8. Personifying, personifying: Dictionary.com
  9. personifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Personifying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Personifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Personifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. personifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. personifying: FreeDictionary.org
  15. personifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personifying: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  Personification.

Similar:
embody, personate, body, be, personization, personalization, impersonification, personification, impersonization, prosopopoeia, more...

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metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, metonymy, more...

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Similar:
embody, personate, body, be, personization, personalization, impersonification, personification, impersonization, prosopopoeia, more...

Types:
metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, metonymy, more...



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