Person vs. Personality — What's the Difference?

A person (plural people or persons) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes.

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.

A living human. Often used in combination

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character

An individual of specified character

A celebrity or famous person

The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.

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

The living body of a human

Disparaging remarks about an individual.

Physique and general appearance.

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

(Law) A human, corporation, organization, partnership, association, or other entity deemed or construed to be governed by a particular law.

The totality of behavioral traits that are peculiar to a specific nonhuman animal

(Christianity) Any of the three separate individualities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as distinguished from the essence of the Godhead that unites them.

The totality of qualities that distinguish a group, organization, or place

Any of three groups of pronoun forms with corresponding verb inflections that distinguish the speaker (first person), the individual addressed (second person), and the individual or thing spoken of (third person).

The collection of distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing

Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.

The quality or condition of being a person.

A character or role, as in a play; a guise

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

An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being.

A person of prominence or notoriety

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.

The distinctive characteristics of a place or situation

(Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.

Personalities An offensive or disparaging personal remark

Any sentient or socially intelligent being.

(of people) A set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).

(of inanimate or abstract things) A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).

An assumed role or manner of behavior.

(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.

A celebrity, especially one with a strong media presence.

The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.

Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.

(law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

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

The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

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

(grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.

That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.

(biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

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.

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

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

To man, to supply with staff or crew.

A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.

The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual;

The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

A person of considerable prominence;

A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.

A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

A parson; the parish priest.

Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.

One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

A human being;

A person's body (usually including their clothing);

A grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms;