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Antonyms for personalities

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pur-suh-nal-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpɜr səˈnæl ɪ ti

Definition of personalities

Origin :
  • 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, 1875-1961]
  • Meaning "person whose character stands out from that of others" is from 1889. Personality cult is attested from 1956.
  • noun celebrity, notable
  • noun person's character, traits
Example sentences :
  • It passes from badinage into personalities and recriminations.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
  • Words are like buildings; like personalities; they have their exterior and their interior message.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • A movement of this kind should not be allowed to focus on personalities.
  • Extract from : « Marriage Enrichment Retreats » by David Mace
  • "With personalities like that, respectability is a disease," she told me.
  • Extract from : « One-Shot » by James Benjamin Blish
  • In short, we finally have not merely two but a number of personalities in us.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • They sat down and talked upon the fringe of personalities which he avoided.
  • Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
  • Without it, you would be unable to combat the evil inherent in your personalities.
  • Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
  • They need all that they can get, and their personalities will grow to fill it.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Mind » by James Mark Baldwin
  • The canvass of 1888 was not marred by the personalities of 1884.
  • Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson
  • Nor is it an answer that this depended on the personalities of the particular writers.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton

Synonyms for personalities

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