#personification
- Ahimia — An allegorical personification of shamelessness, infamy, or lack of respect, encountered in certain classical, Hellenistic, or Humanist philosophical, mythological, or dramatic writings. The term derives directly from the Greek 'aschemia' (lack of form, decency, or shame) and is used as a conceptual character meant to illustrate the moral or structural degradation of human virtue.
- Aidoio — A rare academic transliteration form for the Greek mythological epithet 'Aidoios' (venerable, worthy of respect, august), sometimes used in classical philology and ancient history as a personification or symbolic title given to deities or ancient magistrates who guarded moral respect and structural decency in the city.
- Archaic love — An archaic form or poetic variant derived from Latin (amor, -oris) designating personified love, deep amorous passion, or a figurative representation of the god Cupid. It is used in early literature and 19th-century translations to evoke intense affective states or classical motifs in erotic poetry.
- Anthropomorphic — Pertaining to anthropomorphism or presenting an anthropomorphic character; the structural tendency to attribute human qualities, emotions, intentions, motives, or shapes to non-human entities, such as deities, animals, inanimate objects, or natural phenomena. In cognitive psychology and literary studies, the term defines how language and thought humanize the surrounding reality to make it intelligible.
- Anthropomorphism — A conception, doctrine, or psychological and religious tendency to attribute human qualities, feelings, passions, intentions, and shapes to deities, animals, inanimate objects, or blind forces of nature. In the history of religions, it represents the core characteristic of ancient polytheism, whereas in modern psychology, it is considered a cognitive bias through which humans humanize their environment to make it intelligible.
- Anthropomorphist female — The feminine form of 'antropomorfist'; describes a woman, an artwork, a religious group, or a doctrinal vision that embraces or applies the principles of anthropomorphism. As a noun, it denotes a female artist, writer, or follower of a spiritual current that attributes human traits and shapes to deities or elements of nature.
- Anthropomorphization — The act of anthropomorphizing and its result; the psychological, cognitive, or artistic process through which human traits, shapes, intentions, emotional states, or behaviors are attributed to non-human entities (animals, deities, objects, or forces of nature). In cognitive sciences, it represents a projection mechanism utilized to decipher and make the surrounding environment familiar.
- Bacchus — An alternative and common spelling variant for Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, the grapevine, vegetation, mystical ecstasy, and festivities (identified with Dionysus in Greek mythology). In a figurative and everyday sense, the name is used as a personification of alcohol consumption, lively banquets, bohemian parties, and the cult dedicated to dionysian pleasures.