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multiple personality
noun
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
Nontechnical name: split personality. psychiatry 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of multiple personality1
Example Sentences
Throughout, Flournoy’s gift for weaving multiple personalities into a cohesive whole is on fine display.
Bianchi did so under hypnosis, and convinced more than one psychiatrist that he suffered from multiple personality disorder.
Some are wildly extravagant, proliferating heads and arms into delirious phantasms of multiple personality and manifold temperaments.
But, deputies wrote in her file, she said she had “multiple personality disorder” and “stated that she ‘always kinda wanted to die.’”
“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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