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 • Feb. 6, 2025
"The granola personalty seems embedded within its crumbly, roof-of-the-mouth-splitting DNA."
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2023
Players also go through a litany of personalty tests at these events.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018
Thank you for all your films, and being such a positive personalty!
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017
"There is but one case on record of a peer of England leaving over $7,500,000 personalty."
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
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