Personable vs. Person — What's the Difference?

Pleasantly sociable.

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.

Pleasing in appearance; attractive.

A living human. Often used in combination

(of a person) Having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.

An individual of specified character

(of a person) Having a pleasant or manner; friendly; amiable.

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

Enabled to maintain pleas in court.

The living body of a human

Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.

Physique and general appearance.

Enabled to maintain pleas in court.

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

(of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality

(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.

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).

Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.

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

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

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.

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

Any sentient or socially intelligent being.

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

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

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

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

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

The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

(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.

(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.

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

To man, to supply with staff or crew.

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

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;