personalty
Americannoun
plural
personaltiesnoun
Etymology
Origin of personalty
1600–10; < Anglo-French personalte < Late Latin persōnālitās personality
Example Sentences
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The film doesn’t attempt to fit these two halves of his personalty together.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Salon
The granola personalty seems embedded within its crumbly, roof-of-the-mouth-splitting DNA — wherever you want to begin its story.
From Salon
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.
From The Guardian
“The reason oil is fascinating is that it’s very complex, and they all have different personalties,” he said.
From Washington Post
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