Personality Definition
pûrsə-nălĭ-tē
personalities
noun
The quality or fact of being a particular person; personal identity; individuality.
Webster's New World
The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal.
A hyena with an assertive personality.
American Heritage Medicine
The quality or fact of being a person; personhood.
Webster's New World
The complex of qualities and characteristics seen as being distinctive to a group, nation, place, etc.
Webster's New World
Qualities of any individual as expressed by attitudes and physical and mental activities; distinctive individual qualities of a person, considered collectively.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Personality
Noun
Singular:
personalityPlural:
personalitiesOrigin of Personality
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Middle English personalite from Old French from Late Latin persōnālitās from Latin persōnālis personal from persōna person person
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Coined between 1350 and 1400 from Middle English personalite, from Middle French, from Late Latin persōnālitās.
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