Reification vs. Personification — What's the Difference?

To regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

A figure intended to represent an abstract quality

The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

The act of personifying.

(programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.

A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification

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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia.

(linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.

Regarding something abstract as a material thing

A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality;

A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop ia; as, the floods clap their hands.

A person who represents an abstract quality;

Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.