personificación

Definitions of personificación
  1. noun
    the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
  2. noun
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
    synonyms: prosopopeya
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    type of:
    tropo
    language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  3. noun
    a person who represents an abstract quality
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    types:
    avatar, encarnación
    a new personification of a familiar idea
    type of:
    alma, humano, individuo, mortal, persona, ser humano
    a human being
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