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personalty

American  
[pur-suh-nl-tee] / ˈpɜr sə nl ti /

noun

Law.
personalties plural
  1. personal estate or property.


personalty British  
/ ˈpɜːsənəltɪ /

noun

  1. law another word for personal property

"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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Inflected Forms

noun

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 — wherever you want to begin its story.

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

Divide the amount of their mere personalty by thirty-nine, and you have �54,000 apiece.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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