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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

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 use of the Rorschach test in female patients diagnosed with cancer has not been thoroughly studied in Argentina.

Cancer and Rorschach from an existential perspective

Massachusetts, one of few states to adopt healthcare reform, has become a Rorschach test in the debate over changing the healthcare system nationwide.

Critical Mass.: Massachusetts has become a Rorschach test in the debate over healthcare. Some experts believe the state has triumphed in its attempts to spread a universal insurance umbrella for its citizens, while critics say it has embarked on an expensive folly

To me, the concept of diversity is very much like a Rorschach Test for an organization and the individuals dealing with diversity issues.

The boundary of diversity

CD has most often been measured from standardized, verbatim individual Rorschach test records, and the essential issue is not the intrapsychic phenomena as traditionally interpreted but more the pattern of reciprocal shared focusing of attention and meaning in the communication process (Wynne, Singer, & Toohey, 1976).

Finnish adoption study of schizophrenia: implications for family interventions

A one time reference to the Rorschach test and interpolations of common myths about international non proliferation keep the reader's attention and make the work enjoyable.

The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy

His latest best-selling book, The Shame of the Nation, is like a Rorschach test for Americans.

The elephant in the room: race and class in America

The image of a schizophrenic's body through the Rorschach test

La imagen del cuerpo de un esquizofrenico a traves del Rorschach

Revelation is a theological Rorschach test for any interpreter or preacher.

All saints Sunday: November 6, 2005

This is found to be essentially true on the Rorschach Test.

Theoretical foundations of Rorschach by Piotrowski

But an untitled abstract painting automatically becomes as enticing as a Rorschach test.

Untitled

Like a Rorschach test that reveals more of the percipient than of itself, however, one's judgment of T.

Love and Friendship

In one sense this image is an astronomical Rorschach test for gauging your knowledge of the deep sky.