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personality
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personality noun attributes, being, character, disposition, distinction, distinctiveness, identity, individualism, individuality, ingenium, makeup, nature, oneness, originality, particularity, personal identity, personal mark, predisposition, selfhood, selfness, singularity, soul, style, temperament, traits, type, uniqueness
See also: character, disposition, identity, inclination, individual, individuality, presence, property, temperament

PERSONALITY. An abstract of personal; as, the action is in the personalty, that is, it is brought against a person for a personal duty which he owes. It also signifies what belongs to the person; as, personal property.



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The organization uses a personality test to match big brothers and sisters with their younger counterparts.
Annie Murphy Paul's The Cult of Personality is a good summary of some of the problems with personality tests.
Sverko and Babarovic's findings may be partially explained by Glavin's (2004) assertion that Holland's Self-Directed Search is not really a career test but rather a personality test that results in an individual being assigned a personality type based on Holland's (1997) Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC) system.
 
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