PERSONIFICATION

• (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

  synonyms : incarnation

• (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

  synonyms : prosopopoeia

• (noun) a person who represents an abstract quality

  "she is the personification of optimism"

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