The act of treating something inanimate as a person or giving human qualities to a non-human thing; a specialized or archaic form of personification.
From 'person' with the prefix 'ap-' (meaning 'to' or 'toward') and suffix '-ation,' though this word is extremely rare and possibly obsolete.
This ultra-rare word captures something poets do constantly—when a tree 'weeps' with sap or autumn 'breathes'—yet English speakers prefer the simpler word 'personification'!
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