Mental Process
personality

per·son·al·i·ty [ pur-suh-nal-i-tee ]
Definitions related to personality:
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Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Response patterns of an individual distinguishing him or her from most other individuals in the social group.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Personality, a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people. It includes behavioral characteristics, both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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