personifier
- noun
- /ˌpɜrsəˈnɪfaɪər/
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personificador
- The artist created a sculpture that serves as a personifier of hope, depicting a figure reaching towards the sky.
Examples
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Spend an hour with a well-made bod—one of mine, where I've had my top personifier Kendra working with me—and you would be unlikely to suspect that it wasn't human.
Fiction book (2002) -
Our top personifier is a woman named Kendra.
Fiction book (2002) -
Kendra is Boditexx's chief personifier, and she always works nights.
Fiction book (2002) -
"O personifiers," he said, "today more than ever must your voices carry sense beyond your words, for only through resonance may reflection be conveyed to those who do not see.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the play, the character of Love is a personifier that gives human traits to the concept of affection.
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Many brands use mascots as personifiers to connect their products with human emotions and experiences.
Synonyms
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4.8
A person who is a perfect example of a quality
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5.5
A person or thing that shows an idea, quality and feeling
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6.8
A person or thing that represents an idea, for example kindness
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6.3
A person or thing that shows a quality very clearly
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6.5
A person who shows a quality very clearly
A person or object that stands for an idea with deeper meaning
How Representative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Personifier comes from person, from Latin persona meaning 'mask', the kind an actor used to show a character, plus the ending -ifier meaning 'one who makes'. So a personifier is someone or something that 'makes' an idea into a person or shows it as human.