personalty
Americannoun
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personalties
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of personalty
1600–10; < Anglo-French personalte < Late Latin persōnālitās personality
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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
“Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets,” with the radio personalty Dennis Elsas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2016
"It was his share of his father's personalty."
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
Rosenwald said some of the rhetoric of conservative talk personalties is driven by a chicken-and-egg issue.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
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 ● Feb. 6, 2020
But of all the theories that journalist Rob Sheffield explores in his fascinating new book “Dreaming the Beatles,” one of the most compelling is how well the Fab Four reflect our own personalties and relationship dynamics.
From Salon ● May 6, 2017
A deranged man with 23 distinct personalties struggles with an emerging 24th that threatens to dominate the others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
In the advertisements, a comma following "Boston Transcript" was changed to a period, "dominant personalties" was changed to "dominant personalties", and "Medalion in color" was changed to "Medallion in color".
From The Devil A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience by Marie Manning
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