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# personality

noun (a personality, personalities)

«personality» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Your personality is the kind of person you are: your character, the way you think, feel and behave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#m1)
2. Personality means having a strong, lively, interesting character: "she has lots of personality". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#m2)
3. A personality is a famous person, especially from TV, radio or sport: "a TV personality". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and English lessons, writers show a character's personality through what they say and do; pupils describe personalities with adjectives like brave, shy or bossy. In everyday life, pets and even places can be said to have personality. Phrases: strong personality, a TV personality, a sports personality, personality traits.

### Examples

- My dog has a big personality. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x1)
- The twins look alike but have different personalities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x2)
- Describe the hero's personality in three words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x3)
- She has a cheerful personality. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x4)
- He became a famous TV personality. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x5)
- Our classroom has lots of personality with all our art on the walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x6)
- In youth one must mingle one's own personality with life, that they may become one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/#x7)

### Note

Plural: personalities (y changes to ies). Personality is the whole character; a "personal" thing belongs to one person; "personnel" means staff — easy to confuse.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Westcott links the Hebrew nefesh, "soul", to the living personality of a person or creature. In the primary lessons: In stories and English lessons, writers show a character's personality through what they say and do; pupils describe personalities with adjectives like brave, shy or bossy. In everyday life, pets and even places can be said to have personality. Phrases: strong personality, a TV personality, a sports personality, personality traits.

### Examples

- Soul; the word is NPSh, which is commonly translated soul, meaning the living personality of man, animal or existing thing : it corresponds almost to the Theosophic Prana plus the stimulus of Kama. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/personality/#x1)

### Note

Plural: personalities (y changes to ies). Personality is the whole character; a "personal" thing belongs to one person; "personnel" means staff — easy to confuse.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «personality» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/personality/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«personality» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/personality.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «personality» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/personality/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«personality» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/personality.html) on Mova free.