| Personification 1. (n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. 2. (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; as, the floods clap their hands. Thesaurus Entries 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 |