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/pˌərsənˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Personality n. (pl. personalities)

That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality. "Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground."

Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. "Sharp personalities were exchanged."

(Law) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.

A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

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Etymology of 'Personality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... near—Lionel Arnold, a born litterateur, and an artist—he looked more confident than most. It seemed to the girl he felt sure of being taken; sure that his name and position and, more than all, his developed, finished personality must count as much as that. And the girl knew that in the direct, unsophisticated judgments of the judges these things did ...

— The Courage of the Commonplace • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... saddle was gathered up and taken to the harness maker along with the animal, and the two were put together in such a manner that if he again bucked it off, some part of Jack's personality would have to accompany it. The next trial was more successful, and after a few attempts he gave in, and from that day he became ...

— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth

... throughout the meal, his mind being divided between two subjects. Uppermost, though of least importance, was the personality of Saul Arthur Mann. Him he mentally viewed with suspicion and apprehension. It was an irritation even to suggest that there might be secret places in his own life which could be flooded with the light of this man's knowledge, and he resolved to beard "The Man Who Knows" in his den that ...

— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace

... Japanese without individuality; but their individuality is less superficially apparent, and reveals itself much less quickly, than that of Western people. I am also convinced that much of what we call 'personality' and 'force of character' in the West represents only the survival and recognition of primitive aggressive tendencies, more or less disguised by culture. What Mr. Spencer calls the highest individuation surely does not include extraordinary development ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... guessed to Doomsday. In the first place I do not believe in Ossian, and having partially examined the testimony (for I don't pretend to any exact learning about it) I consider him as the poetical lay figure upon which Mr. Macpherson dared to cast his personality. There is a sort of phraseology, nay, an identity of occasional phrases, from the antique—but that these so-called Ossianic poems were ever discovered and translated as they stand in their present form, I believe in no wise. As Dr. Johnson wrote to Macpherson, so I would say, 'Mr. ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

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