Definition of "personification"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural personifications
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Quotations
He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 12