personificación

f.

1 personification, part, role, impersonation.

2 personification, living image.

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personificación

► nombre femenino

1 personification

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SF

1) (=representación) personification, embodiment

es la personificación de los celos — he is the embodiment of jealousy, he is jealousy personified

2) (Literat) personification

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femenino

a) (encarnación) embodiment, personification

es la personificación de la impaciencia — he is impatience personified

b) (Lit) personification

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= incarnation, embodiment, epitome, personification, embodier.

Ex. The term indexing language can seem rather daunting, and has certainly had different meanings in its different incarnations.

Ex. At first, large public libraries organised readers' advisory services as the embodiment of library adult education.

Ex. This extraordinary assault on a fine old children's book has ever since stood for me as the epitome of the scholastic abuse of literature.

Ex. The sketchbook features drawings illustrating the liberal arts (including personifications of the planets), the chivalrous life (including hunting and love), household remedies, mining and smelting, and war technology.

Ex. In the end, whether public libraries are allowed to continue in their present depressed state or whether they will become a many-sided embodier and nourisher of a literate society's literacy, depends not on the standards discussed by the professionals, but on those willed by the public.

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* la personificación de la confianza en uno mismo = confidence personified.

* personificación de la calma, la = picture of calm, the.

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femenino

a) (encarnación) embodiment, personification

es la personificación de la impaciencia — he is impatience personified

b) (Lit) personification

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= incarnation, embodiment, epitome, personification, embodier.

Ex: The term indexing language can seem rather daunting, and has certainly had different meanings in its different incarnations.

Ex: At first, large public libraries organised readers' advisory services as the embodiment of library adult education.

Ex: This extraordinary assault on a fine old children's book has ever since stood for me as the epitome of the scholastic abuse of literature.

Ex: The sketchbook features drawings illustrating the liberal arts (including personifications of the planets), the chivalrous life (including hunting and love), household remedies, mining and smelting, and war technology.

Ex: In the end, whether public libraries are allowed to continue in their present depressed state or whether they will become a many-sided embodier and nourisher of a literate society's literacy, depends not on the standards discussed by the professionals, but on those willed by the public.

* la personificación de la confianza en uno mismo = confidence personified.

* personificación de la calma, la = picture of calm, the.

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personificación

feminine

1 (encarnación) embodiment, personification

es la personificación de la impaciencia he is impatience personified, impatience is his middle name (colloq)

2 (Lit) personification

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personificación sustantivo femenino Paco es la personificación de la avaricia, Paco is the embodiment of stinginess
'personificación' also found in these entries:
English:
embodiment
- embody
- epitome
- personification
- epitomize
- essence

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personificación nf

1. [representación] personification;

este niño es la personificación del mal this child is an absolute devil

2. [prosopopeya] personification

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personificación

f personification, embodiment