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personification vs person

person vs personification

personification and person both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
personification Yes No No No
person Yes No No No
As nouns, person is a hypernym of personification; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than personification:
  • personification: a person who represents an abstract quality
  • person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
Other hypernyms of personification include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.
personification (noun) person (noun)
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature a human body (usually including the clothing)
a person who represents an abstract quality a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
Difference between personification and person

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