personalty

[pur-suh-nl-tee]

noun

Law.

plural

personalties 

1. personal estate or property.

personalty

/ ˈpɜːsənəltɪ /

noun

1. law another word for personal property

Word History and Origins

Origin of personalty¹

1600–10; < Anglo-French personalte < Late Latin persōnālitās personality

Word History and Origins

Origin of personalty¹

C16: from Anglo-French, from Late Latin persōnālitās personality

Example Sentences

The film doesn’t attempt to fit these two halves of his personalty together.

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After attending Yale, Cornell and Le Cordon Bleu throughout the 1980s, Tsai became recognized for his restaurant Blue Ginger, as well as becoming a burgeoning television personalty in the nascent days of Food Network.

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The granola personalty seems embedded within its crumbly, roof-of-the-mouth-splitting DNA — wherever you want to begin its story.

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Most characters in superhero films are conceived around single-tic personalties connected to their superpower and/or activity, with a sledgehammer-sized neurosis in the background to try and give them some relationship to plausibility.

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“The reason oil is fascinating is that it’s very complex, and they all have different personalties,” he said.

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