personalia

American  

[pur-suh-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh] / ˌpɜr səˈneɪ li ə, -ˈneɪl yə /

plural noun

1. personal belongings.

2. biographical data, personal reminiscences, or the like.

   He could never keep the personalia out of his essays.

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Etymology

Origin of personalia

First recorded in 1860–65; from Late Latin, neuter plural of Latin persōnālis; see person + -al ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

It is, in fact, constructed largely around passages drawn from the Longfellow circle’s journals, correspondence and other personalia.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

Frankfurter fancied himself an expert at "personalia," his word for charming, persuading and manipulating others.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially the courteous, humorous, almost tender friendship between the divorced senior Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is able to give to the abstract personalia of this theater a local habitation and a name�a habitation so truly seen in detail that it becomes more real than the town's tax rolls.

From Time Magazine Archive

The personalia are dropped in casually, here and there, not so much for the purpose of specific biography, as to illustrate the incentives which shaped his thought and enriched his invention as a playwright.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus