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multiple personality

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. a rare disorder in which an individual displays several functionally dissociated personalities, each of a complexity comparable to that of a normal individual.



multiple personality

noun

  1. Nontechnical name: split personalitypsychiatry a mental disorder in which an individual's personality appears to have become separated into two or more distinct personalities, each with its own complex organization

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of multiple personality1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

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Throughout, Flournoy’s gift for weaving multiple personalities into a cohesive whole is on fine display.

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Bianchi did so under hypnosis, and convinced more than one psychiatrist that he suffered from multiple personality disorder.

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Some are wildly extravagant, proliferating heads and arms into delirious phantasms of multiple personality and manifold temperaments.

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But, deputies wrote in her file, she said she had “multiple personality disorder” and “stated that she ‘always kinda wanted to die.’”

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“I do believe that that’s why actors are actors because I think everybody is a multiple personality. Actors just choose to access it.”

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