English[edit]

1. Personalities
2. Personalities Types
3. Personalities Of Gemini
4. Personalities Types
5. Personalities List

Etymology[edit]

Coined between 1350 and 1400 as Middle Englishpersonalite, from Middle French[Term?], from Latinpersōnālitās.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

About the 16 Personality Types Personality typing is a system of categorizing people according to their tendencies to think and act in particular ways. Personality typing attempts to find the broadest, most important ways in which people are different, and make sense of these differences by sorting people into meaningful groups.

1. Personality per″sŭ-nal´ĭ-te the characteristic way that a person thinks, feels, and behaves; the relatively stable and predictable part of a person's thought and behavior; it includes conscious attitudes, values, and styles as well as unconscious conflicts and defense mechanisms. Personality traits are simple features of normal and abnormal.
2. Personalities can be categorized in a number of ways. Maybe you’ve taken a test based on one of these approaches, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the Big Five inventory.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /pɜːsəˈnælətɪ/, /-i/
• (General American)IPA^(key): /ˌpɝsəˈnælɪti/, [ˌpɝsəˈnælɪɾi]

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Noun[edit]

personality (countable and uncountable, pluralpersonalities)

1. A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another.
   • c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church

     Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

2. An assumed role or manner of behavior.

   In his final act, the comedian takes on a child's personality.

3. A celebrity.

   Johnny Carson was a respected television personality.

4. Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
   • 1959, Lloyd Price, “Personality”:

     But over and over / I´ll be a fool for you / 'cause you got personality.

5. Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, :
   • 1905, O. Henry, 'Telemachus, Friend'

     Perceiving that personalities were not out of order, I asked him what species of beast had long ago twisted and mutilated his left ear.

   indulgence in personalities

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

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Descendants[edit]

• → Japanese: パーソナリティ(pāsonariti)

Translations[edit]

Personalities

Personalities Types

Personalities Of Gemini

References[edit]

1. ^ “personality” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Personalities Types

Further reading[edit]

Personalities List

• 'personality' in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 232.

Anagrams[edit]

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