personation

1. 1.

   imitating the mannerisms of another person

   Synonymsimpersonation

   Broaderacting

   Narrowerapery
2. 2.

   acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

   Synonymsportrayalcharacterizationenactment

   Broaderacting

   Narrowerimpressioncharacter

Other forms of personation

plural

personations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about personation

What does personation mean?

personation means "imitating the mannerisms of another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in personation?

personation has 5 syllables: per-so-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for personation?

Close synonyms include impersonation, portrayal, characterization, enactment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personation a common word?

personation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.