Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun personification

3 senses of personification

Sense 1
personification -- (a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism")
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

Sense 2
personification, prosopopoeia -- (representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature)
       => trope, figure of speech, figure, image -- (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

Sense 3
personification, incarnation -- (the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.)
       => embodiment -- (giving concrete form to an abstract concept)