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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
personality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a forceful personality/character/opponent etc
▪ He gained a reputation as a forceful member of the party.
a personality disorder (=that stops someone behaving in a normal way)
▪ The study suggested that 84% of prisoners have a personality disorder.
a sports personality (=someone who is famous for playing sport)
▪ The event will be opened by a well-known sports personality.
flamboyant style/character/personality
▪ his flamboyant style of play
multiple personality
▪ multiple personality disorder
personality cult
personality type (=with a particular type of character)
▪ Find out your personality type by answering our simple questionnaire.
personality/character traits
▪ a mental illness associated with particular personality traits
split personality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ The interplay of these very different personalities with Beckett's mercurial temperament results in fascinating and varied music.
▪ Again, they may have been one Goddess whose different sides became assigned to different personalities.
▪ Vyner, as he was known, was a very different personality from his father.
▪ You have to have good hosts, guys with different backgrounds and personalities.
▪ It would finally make her into a different personality.
▪ His correspondence revealed a very different personality than what detectives had described.
▪ I've had a series of producers, all with very different personalities.
▪ Actually, we both have different personalities, and we are totally different people.
forceful
▪ Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf was undoubtedly a most forceful personality.
▪ In contrast to Burt, Bob was a big man whose height and girth substantiated his forceful, dominant personality.
▪ But through her looks and forceful personality she quickly became Britain's best known actress of the 50's.
▪ She was a forceful personality who did not suffer fools gladly, but her sternness was accompanied by grace and Victorian courtesy.
human
▪ Idleness is at root alien to human personality.
▪ But the human personality of a particular body is not superfluous when we fall in love with some one whose body it is.
▪ Abraham Maslow has drawn up a model of seven motivational needs, all of which are basic to human personality.
▪ Whereas human personality is present in bodies, divine personality is present in what is inanimate also.
▪ Politicians rarely change sides unless their instinct is purely one of self-preservation, human personalities remain predictably the same.
individual
▪ Judge them by their product and not their individual personalities.
▪ But the current penchant for mixing styles has placed new importance on that special little table with an individual personality.
▪ Despite this the finale still manages to ride on a wave bigger than any individual personality, bigger than the music itself.
▪ The psychological counterpart is an acknowledgement of the many aspects of an individual personality.
▪ Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.
▪ General rules are difficult to give because each disciplinary encounter is unique, given the specific circumstances and the individual personalities involved.
▪ Secondly, the impact of individual personality traits are considered.
▪ At local level, control exerted by NGOs varies widely, depending on their philosophy, their economic clout, and individual personalities.
legal
▪ The distinctive attributes of the company, separate legal personality and limited liability, are beyond the reach of private agreement.
▪ Unlike a company, a partnership possesses no legal personality separate from the partners that comprise it.
▪ Agency and partnership Agency may be regarded as an extension of legal personality.
▪ The property of a partnership belongs to all the partners in common, since the partnership itself has no legal personality.
▪ This theory treats the company as an artificial entity whose separate legal personality is granted as a privilege by the state.
multiple
▪ On one end is daydreaming, on the other, multiple personality.
▪ He pulls the old multiple personality excuse.
▪ Austin would apparently give Mach, said to be free of AT&T code, multiple personalities like OS/2 or OSF/1.
political
▪ Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government.
▪ Television, a medium of hits and stars, turns political personalities into national celebrities comparable to entertainment stars.
▪ A political personality does not necessarily have to be eloquent or even verbally articulate to come across well on the television screen.
▪ For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
▪ This last question is at the heart of the disagreement about the value of such political personality studies.
▪ Recent analyses of the political personality of top leaders often take a more explicitly psychoanalytic perspective.
▪ Barber acknowledges that political personality is not deterministic in a strict sense.
▪ The most focused research on political personality has studied top political leaders.
powerful
▪ Although she remained a strong, happy, powerful personality everything about her seemed transformed.
▪ The similarities in their powerful personalities and political activism are obvious.
▪ It was Alain's presence, his powerful personality, his devastating masculinity.
▪ Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times.
▪ Berton was a powerful personality, a cocksure businessman with a fast-talking line in hard sell.
▪ Roman came into the room and it seemed to shrink before his powerful personality.
▪ It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities.
▪ If the figure was too high, many future decisions could still be influenced by powerful personalities.
split
▪ As tonight attests, a tape of two halves was the product of a band with a split personality.
▪ Schizophrenia is classified as a functional psychosis and split personality as a dissociative hysterical neurosis, as different as tonsillitis and appendicitis.
strong
▪ Azhag was not entirely Azhag any more, the immeasurably strong personality of Nagash was gradually eating him away.
▪ But none had to manage so many strong personalities and get so many others to understand their roles.
▪ Plas Newydd is dominated by his strong personality.
▪ Yes, I have a strong personality.
▪ Always the strong personalities had great power of influence.
▪ The battle between Beck and Mackenzie, two strong and stubborn personalities, was over, at least for the moment.
▪ Even allowing for these limitations, Smythson's is the strongest architectural personality to have survived from the Elizabethan and Jacobean age.
▪ The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos.
■ NOUN
change
▪ She's well regarded, except at times in her local supermarket where Phyllis occasionally undergoes something of a personality change.
▪ Although the patients could leave the asylum, they often demonstrated some personality changes.
▪ The loss of spontaneity and initiative may be accompanied by personality changes, anxiety and restlessness, particularly around tea time.
▪ Even more disconcerting were the personality changes.
▪ And the trauma had caused personality changes which made him irritable and difficult to live with.
▪ But for me the agent for personality change is not hormonal.
▪ He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover.
▪ Two members, however, seem to have undergone a major personality change.
characteristic
▪ Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests.
▪ What personality characteristics do you think are desirable in a political leader?
▪ During the first few years of life, enduring personality characteristics are established.
▪ Psychologists have never had much success at defining which personality characteristics are inherited in humans and which are not.
▪ But in fact lawyers vary all over the lot in their personality characteristics.
▪ Other event-producing situations are unrelated to an individual's approach to life or personality characteristics.
▪ There are also personality characteristics which are manifested both as strengths and weaknesses.
clash
▪ But it is not just this personality clash that is driving Solidarity-as-we-know-it to extinction.
▪ There is talk of personality clashes, and sniping against the campaign chairman, Tony Coelho.
▪ Blaming a personality clash within the department for her ultimatum, she said she would resume work when her back was better.
▪ Where there is a personality clash, the learner should be re-allocated to another clinical teacher.
▪ They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity.
cult
▪ Propping up the world's most enduring dictator is a slavish personality cult, and rigid control of the nation.
▪ But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.
▪ However, Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult, and eventually the policy was changed.
▪ It was also a result of the growth of the press, which delighted in personality cults.
▪ I don't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort.
▪ Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
▪ The Sicilian tyrants did not, however, take the personality cult as far as the successors of Alexander.
disorder
▪ And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder.
▪ Defense psychiatrist George Woods diagnosed Davis as suffering three specific personality disorders.
▪ Other studies suggest that personality disorders are relatively uncommon in anorexia nervosa.
▪ Typically, psychological problems and personality disorders compound as obesity creates a different view of reality.
▪ This personality disorder is characterised by a lack of guilt and an inability to keep rules or form lasting relationships.
▪ Psychologist Lenore Walker argued for eliminating personality disorders altogether because of bias.
▪ She is an elderly lady, she has had one stroke, and she has a personality disorder.
▪ If Atlanta were a person, a psychologist might well render a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
radio
▪ But the scenery was not all friendly here where conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh grew up.
▪ We have a number of radio personalities on public broadcasting who write books.
television
▪ One embarrassing experience involved Jan Leeming, the television personality, who was taking part in a film I was producing.
▪ In this story, the crows represent different television personalities.
▪ One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators.
test
▪ Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests.
▪ They were also given personality tests, since some studies have found an association between susceptibility to infections and personality type.
▪ Personality is an area of subjectivity he avoids, despite the proliferation of personality tests.
▪ Ask him if he would mind taking a personality test.
▪ They do not judge personality, nor do they use personality tests.
▪ On the following trip, 1 interviewed every-one who worked with Ed and asked him to take a series of personality tests.
trait
▪ Is it associated with remediable personality traits?
▪ Initially, they defined the personality traits of those with this syndrome: Authoritarians are extremely conventional in their attitudes and morality.
▪ For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
▪ What are the personality traits of Chemical Dependency?
▪ As a result, they are unable ever to get beyond the personality traits they find irritating.
▪ Secondly, the impact of individual personality traits are considered.
type
▪ State institutions, we should remember, can change a good deal faster than child-rearing regimes or basic personality types.
▪ They were also given personality tests, since some studies have found an association between susceptibility to infections and personality type.
▪ This is concerned with groupings based upon personality types, including life styles.
▪ No particular personality type seemed to predominate.
▪ A particular personality type is said to be favoured: those with good listening skills who will implement party decisions without question.
▪ Below are a few of the personality types which are the result of habit and conditioning.
■ VERB
develop
▪ I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite.
▪ Every one of these older persons is a fully developed personality.
▪ He developed the classic personality of the tycoon: huge ambition combined with enormous charm and total ruthlessness.
▪ Do you have to develop a personality well-suited to golf to become good at golf?
▪ They have excellent, fully developed personalities and even interact with each other and their environments.
▪ But we are given no clues as to why some people should develop such personality traits.
▪ Through the integration of feminine role learning with self-definition, housekeeping behaviours tend to be developed as personality functions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
magnetic personality/charm etc
▪ Among them was Christopher Hitchens, the Washington-based writer, a figure of magnetic charm and great volubility.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sports personality
▪ Billie Holiday or Bessie Smith had more personality than a hundred of today's pop singers.
▪ Dotty was a smart, good-looking 17-year-old with a lively personality.
▪ Everyone loves her for her cheerful personality.
▪ For years she was one of the best-loved personalities in the newspaper gossip columns.
▪ It's true he can be emotional at times but that's just part of his personality.
▪ Radio personality Don Imus has gotten in trouble again for what he said on the air.
▪ The disease causes memory loss, often leading to changes in behavior and personality.
▪ The Senator is a good, reliable man, but he lacks personality.
▪ There are three islands off the coast, each with its own personality.
▪ This election should be about issues and policies, not about the personalities of the candidates!
▪ Yes, he's got plenty of talent and ambition, but he's got no personality.
▪ Yun has a lovely, warm personality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Closely allied to the fundamental fear-complex within the personality is violence.
▪ Inside of her 4-10, 90-pound body was a lively personality and incredible desire.
▪ Most are Type A personalities, very outgoing, although a few are very shy and express themselves through their cars.
▪ Plas Newydd is dominated by his strong personality.
▪ Relationships in a single policy area also vary over time according to the issues and personalities involved.
▪ The critics held him in high esteem as an actor, and the fans adored him for his outrageous and boozy personality.
▪ This information is important in understanding the circumstances and influences on the development of the client's personality and belief systems.
▪ What type of personality do you have?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Personality

Personality \Per`son*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Personalities. [Cf. F. personnalit['e]. Cf. Personality.]

  1. 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.
    --Coleridge.

  2. 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.
    --Macaulay.

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

  4. A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
personality

late 14c., "quality or fact of being a person," from Medieval Latin personalitatem (nominative personalitas), from Late Latin personalis (see personal). Sense of "a distinctive character" is first recorded 1795, from French personnalité.Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence, coupled with the greatest possible freedom of self-determination. [C.G. Jung, "The Development of Personality," 1932]Meaning "person whose character stands out from that of others" is from 1889. Personality cult is attested from 1956.

Wiktionary
personality

n. A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another.

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WordNet
personality

  1. n. the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"

  2. a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"

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Wikipedia
Personality

Personality is a set of individual differences that are affected by the socio-cultural development of an individual: values, attitudes, personal memories, social relationships, habits, and skills. Different personality theorists present their own definitions of the word based on their theoretical positions.

The term "personality trait" refers to enduring personal characteristics that are revealed in a particular pattern of behaviour in a variety of situations.

Personality (disambiguation)

Personality is a set of traits that define the way a person's behavior is perceived.

In debate, a personality is a reference to a particular person.

Personality may also refer to:

  • Personality (horse) (1967–1990), 1970 American Horse of the Year
  • Personality (novel), 2003 work by Andrew O'Hagan
  • Personality (film), 1930 work directed by Victor Heerman
  • "Personality" (1946 song), a song in the 1946 film Road to Utopia
  • "Personality" (Lloyd Price song), 1959 popular song performed by Lloyd Price
  • Personality (TV series), an American game show
  • Personality (Microkernel Technology), a number of programs that simulate an OS on a microkernel
  • Personality (Nina Badrić album), album by Croatian singer Nina Badrić
Personality (TV series)

Personality is an American game show produced by Bob Stewart and hosted by Larry Blyden which ran on NBC from July 3, 1967 to September 26, 1969 at 11:00 AM, EST.

Personality (horse)

Personality (1967–1990) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted 1970 American Horse of the Year honors.

Personality (Lloyd Price song)

"Personality" is a 1959 R&B/ pop hit with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price. It was released as a single by Price. The single reached #2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The song was also a #1 U.S. R&B hit, maintaining the top spot for four weeks. Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1959. The song reached #9 in the U.K..

As "Personalità", performed by Caterina Valente, it was a major Italian hit in 1960.

In 1967, Mitch Ryder got to #87 with a live medley of this song and Chantilly Lace.

Jerry Lee Lewis released a country and western version on his 1979 album, Jerry Lee Lewis. The song was covered by Annie Ross and the Renzettes in Basket Case 3: The Progeny. The Kidsongs covered this song on their "Let's Put on a Show" video and DVD.

A version of the song is heard in a 2010 TV commercial for NFLshop.com. the NFL's online retailer and also appears on the soundtrack of 2011 film The Help.

Personality (1946 song)

"Personality" is a popular song with lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. It was written for the 1946 film Road to Utopia, and Dorothy Lamour performed it in the movie.

In a slightly longer version, the song became a number one Billboard hit for Johnny Mercer in 1946. Dinah Shore also recorded it around that time. Lamour was between record contracts at the time of the film's release, so she did not record the song herself until years later. Bing Crosby recorded the song with Eddie Condon and His Orchestra in January, 1946 and it reached the No. 9 spot in the Billboard charts in April 1946.

The lyrics are humorous (and slightly suggestive for the 1940s), employing the word "personality" as an obvious euphemism for a woman's voluptuous figure.

Al Hirt released a version on his 1964 album, Beauty and the Beard.

Rewritten versions of the song have been used as commercial jingles. The most notable was "Wessonality," an advertisement for Wesson cooking oil sung by Florence Henderson.

Most recently, the song makes an appearance in the game Fallout 4 on the in-game radio station Diamond City Radio.

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Usage examples of "personality".

Homeopathy deals with the physical personality, the symptoms put together making up the physical personality, while allopathy goes by diagnosis which does not consider the personality.

Patients with personality disorders are alloplastic in their defences.

Zelzony squirm in her chair, waking again her ambivalence toward this amalgam of metal and personality.

His sole interest lay in getting one Captain Alicia DeVries not merely ambulatory but fully reconditioned, and his was clearly an obsessive personality.

In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.

And a world made unsafe for mysticism and theocentric religion is a world where the only proved method of transforming personality will be less and less practiced, and where fewer and fewer people will possess any direct, experimental knowledge of reality to set up against the false doctrine of totalitarian anthropocentrism and the pernicious ideas and practices of nationalistic pseudo-mysticism.

Andy wondered whether they were all caught under the sway of some long gone but powerful personality, perhaps the very one who had caused antimacassar to be piled upon antimacassar.

It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.

It had always seemed to Prince Andrew before that he was antipathetic to the Emperor and that the latter disliked his face and personality generally, and in the cold, repellent glance the Emperor gave him, he now found further confirmation of this surmise.

He had done postdoctoral work in neurophysiology, was a lecturer on antisocial personality disorder, and was the director of the New York Forensic Mental Health Group.

BUT his personality is antithetical to the personality of the narcissistic parent.

The front of the courthouse has turned into the Astrodome, with camera and light towers, and live studios with National Personalities on them.

Make physical, personality, attitudinal, values, and behavioral comparisons.

A few saintly personalities stand out amidst a roiling sea of jealousies, ambition, backbiting, suppression of dissent, and absurd conceits.

He has already stamped his personality on the batch, bawling out one guy for not doing his job, while on another occasion, on sentry duty, he was conversing with Coyle sotto voce when Robinson stomped up ignoring all the rules on keeping quiet at night so Tanner backhanded him in the face without even looking like Baloo unleashing a heavy paw.