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Individuality vs. Personality — What's the Difference?

Individuality vs. Personality — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Individuality and Personality

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Individuality

The aggregate of qualities and characteristics that distinguish one person or thing from others; character
Choices that were intended to express his individuality.
Monotonous towns lacking in individuality.

Personality

Personality is defined as the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed upon definition of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological interactions with one's environment.

Individuality

An individual or distinguishing feature.

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character
She had a sunny personality that was very engaging
She has triumphed by sheer force of personality

Individuality

The quality or state of being individual; singularity
She was so involved in the cause that she lost all sense of individuality.
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Personality

A celebrity or famous person
An official opening by a famous personality

Individuality

A single, distinct entity.

Personality

The quality or fact of being a person as distinct from a thing or animal.

Individuality

(Archaic) Indivisibility.

Personality

Disparaging remarks about an individual.

Individuality

(uncountable) The characteristics that contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.

Personality

The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.

Individuality

(countable)  A person.

Personality

The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal
A hyena with an assertive personality.

Individuality

The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.
They possess separate individualities.

Personality

The totality of qualities that distinguish a group, organization, or place
The personality of the business changed dramatically over the years.

Individuality

The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality.

Personality

The collection of distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing
Won the election more on personality than on capability.

Individuality

A habit of thinking and acting in one's own distinctive manner and as one believes appropriate, not being heavily influenced by the opinions of others; - of people.

Personality

The quality or condition of being a person.

Individuality

The quality of being individual;
So absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality

Personality

A person as the embodiment of distinctive traits of mind and behavior.

Individuality

The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
You can lose your identity when you join the army

Personality

A person of prominence or notoriety
Television personalities.

Personality

The distinctive characteristics of a place or situation
Furnishings that give a room personality.

Personality

Personalities An offensive or disparaging personal remark
Let's not engage in personalities.

Personality

(of people) A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
The president has a unique personality.

Personality

(of inanimate or abstract things) A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
His writing has a lot of personality.
This functional concrete building lacks personality.

Personality

An assumed role or manner of behavior.
In his final act, the comedian takes on a child's personality.

Personality

A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.
Johnny Carson was a respected television personality.

Personality

Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
The best contestant shows most personality.

Personality

Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
Indulgence in personalities

Personality

(legal) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons

Personality

That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.
Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.

Personality

Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities.
Sharp personalities were exchanged.

Personality

That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.

Personality

A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

Personality

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

Personality

A person of considerable prominence;
She is a Hollywood personality

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