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Noun personification has 3 senses
- personification - a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars: embodiment, incarnation, avatar; queen
- personification, prosopopoeia - representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
--2 is a kind of trope, figure of speech, figure, image
- personification, incarnation - the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
--3 is a kind of embodiment
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