personification, incarnation
(noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification, prosopopoeia
(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
personification
(noun) a person who represents an abstract quality; “she is the personification of optimism”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
personification (countable and uncountable, plural personifications)
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
Source: Wiktionary
Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. personnification.]
1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.
2. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
