APA Dictionary of Psychology
personification
- n.
- in the approach of Harry Stack Sullivan, the pattern of feelings and attitudes toward another person that arises out of interpersonal relations with them.
- a figure of speech in which personal or human characteristics are attributed to an object or abstraction, as in saying Fortune smiled on her.
- a person viewed as representing or embodying some quality, thing, or idea. —personify vb.
Updated on 11/15/2023
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