A person who represents an abstract quality.

Roget 554: representation, representment^†; imitation etc. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment^†; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting etc. 556; sculpture etc. 557; engraving etc. 558; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography [Bioch.], fluorography [Chem], sciagraphy^†.    personation, personification; impersonation; drama etc. 599.    picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot; X-ray photo; movie film, movie; tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV.    copy etc. 21; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme.    image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.    figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet^†, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet^†, marionette, fantoccini^†, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette.    ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji [Jap.]; diagram, monogram.    map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626.    ichnography^†, cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view etc. (painting) 556; radiograph, scotograph^†, sciagraph^†; spectrogram, heliogram^†.    ... show more

Dutch: personificatie

Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature.

synonym: prosopopoeia.

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage^†, catachresis^†; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia^†, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis^†, type, anagoge^†, simile, personification, prosopopoeia^†, allegory, apologue^†, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.    exaggeration, hyperbole etc. 549.    association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1 ... show more

Dutch: belichaming, incarnatie, personificatie, verpersoonlijking

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..

synonym: incarnation.

Dutch: geluid, personificatie