Definition for Personation:

• The act of personating; impersonation, especially false impersonation.

Synonyms for Personation:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • enactment,
  • personation,
  • impersonation,
  • portrayal,
  • characterization.
  •enactment (noun)
  • playings,
  • representation,
  • personations,
  • personification,
  • depiction,
  • achievement,
  • Re-presentation,
  • performance,
  • execution.
  •masquerade (noun)
  • veil,
  • pose,
  • front,
  • cover,
  • costume,
  • revel,
  • put-on,
  • cloak,
  • Mardi Gras,
  • screen,
  • cover-up,
  • mask,
  • deception,
  • festivity,
  • color,
  • imposture,
  • pretense,
  • masked ball,
  • masking,
  • show,
  • circus,
  • carnival,
  • facade,
  • subterfuge,
  • guise.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • hokum,
  • business,
  • overacting,
  • delineation,
  • portraiture,
  • portraying,
  • passage,
  • stage business,
  • Mimicking,
  • mimesis,
  • dumb show,
  • act,
  • Aping,
  • picture,
  • depicting,
  • pantomiming,
  • portrait,
  • gag,
  • mimicry,
  • stunt,
  • pantomime,
  • characterisation,
  • imitation,
  • incarnation,
  • buffoonery,
  • Enacting,
  • posing,
  • embodiment,
  • word-painting,
  • caricature,
  • stage directions,
  • hoke,
  • patter,
  • projection,
  • miming,
  • slapstick,
  • ham.

Antonyms for Personation:

• n.

  • enactment
    hindrance, neglect, stop, Disallowance, block, failure, veto.
  • masquerade
    openness, honesty, truth, reality.

Personation Sentence Examples:

• Further, if any one had come from Hebburn on behalf of Thompson, he would not have asserted that he was Thompson himself, knowing, as he would, that he was speaking to a photographer, who, if the photographs had been ready, would at once have compared the photographs with the person standing before him, when the attempted personation would at once have been detected.

• Jessie Macpherson had an excellent idea of acting, and, as her features were classical, she made an ideal personation of the future Coriolanus, putting just the right amount of aristocratic haughtiness into her demeanour and calm command into her tone of voice.

Hypernym for Personation:

• n.

  • act
    character, role, mimicry, part, persona, theatrical role, apery, impression.

Hyponym for Personation:

• n.

  • act
    performing, acting, playing, playacting.