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say it: pur-suh-NAL-i-tee
personality is a noun meaning "the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
“their different reactions reflected their very different personalities”
“it is his nature to help others”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for personality come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.