personalty
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
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 — 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
The common settlements and wills, however, deal wholly or mainly with personal property; and an interest in settled personalty is frequently the subject of a mortgage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Rosenwald said some of the rhetoric of conservative talk personalties is driven by a chicken-and-egg issue.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
I also came into a Villa side full of strong personalties such as Paul Merson, David Ginola and Dion Dublin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2018
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
But it is one thing to perceive the tenor of personalties, and another and very different thing to be able to conduct them.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
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