Persona vs. Person — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Persona and Person
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Persona
A persona (plural personae or personas), depending on the context, can refer to either the public image of one's personality, or the social role that one adopts, or a fictional character. The word derives from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask.
Person
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.
Persona
The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others
Her public persona
Person
A living human. Often used in combination
Chairperson.
Salesperson. See Usage Note at chairman.
Persona
Pl. personas The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.
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Person
An individual of specified character
A person of importance.
Persona
Pl. per·so·nas or per·so·nae (-nē) The character represented by the voice of the speaker or narrator in a literary work.
Person
The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
Persona
Personae The characters in a dramatic or literary work.
Person
The living body of a human
Searched the prisoner's person.
Persona
A social role.
Person
Physique and general appearance.
Persona
A character played by an actor.
Person
(Law) A human, corporation, organization, partnership, association, or other entity deemed or construed to be governed by a particular law.
Persona
(psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
He keeps his online persona completely separate from his real-world one.
Person
(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.
Persona
An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.
Person
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).
Persona
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play;
She played the part of Desdemona
Person
Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.
Persona
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world;
A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
Person
A character or role, as in a play; a guise
"Well, in her person, I say I will not have you" (Shakespeare).
Person
An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being.
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.
Person
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.
Person
(Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
Person
Any sentient or socially intelligent being.
Person
(in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
Person
(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
Person
(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.
I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.
Person
The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
Person
(law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
Person
The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
Person
(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.
Person
(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.
Person
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Person
To man, to supply with staff or crew.
Person
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.
His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler.
No man can long put on a person and act a part.
To bear rule, which was thy partAnd person, hadst thou known thyself aright.
How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!
Person
The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
If it assume my noble father's person.
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
Person
A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection.
Person
A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
Person
A parson; the parish priest.
Person
Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
Person
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.
Person
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.
True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
Person
To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Person
A human being;
There was too much for one person to do
Person
A person's body (usually including their clothing);
A weapon was hidden on his person
Person
A grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms;
Stop talking about yourself in the third person
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