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dual personality

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noun

Psychology.
  1. a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.


Etymology

Origin of dual personality

First recorded in 1900–05


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They discovered that amyloid beta has a dual personality, depending on where it acts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025

He acknowledged that he found the company’s dual personality hard to comprehend, noting that most bad landlords keep a low profile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

By the 1960s, pink had taken on a dual personality.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

Hey, this is what a dual personality is like.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2012

I came to develop a dual personality, and in the beginning, I could switch from one to the other as the situation warranted.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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