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n. 1 (context mathematics English) A nine-pointed stellate polygon 2 (context psychology English) Such a figure used to indicate nine personality traits of a subject
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In geometry, an enneagram is a nine-pointed plane figure. It is sometimes called a nonagram.
The name enneagram combines the numeral prefix, ennea-, with the Greek suffix -gram. The -gram suffix derives from γραμμῆς (grammēs) meaning a line.
Enneagram may refer to:
- Enneagram of Personality, a model of human personality which uses an enneagram figure
- Fourth Way enneagram, a diagram used in the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and others associated with the Fourth Way school
- Enneagram (geometry), a nine-sided star polygon: {9/2} and {9/4}
Usage examples of "enneagram".
The theory describes nine different personality types, hence the name Enneagram (ennea means nine in Greek).
In fact, in the teaching of the enneagram, a traditional Sufi analysis of character traits and behavior, the self or ego is a fixation from the past.
The enneagram, brought to us in the 1970s, attempts to make us aware of the extent to which we live in a trancelike attachment to our story of who we think we are.