second self

The definition of second self is a person who has many traits of another person to whom they’re emotionally close.

(noun)

An example of second self is how a sister would describer her twin.

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See second self in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a person so intimately associated with another as to have taken on many of that person's personality traits, attitudes, beliefs, etc.
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