Noun

(en noun)

An incarnate being or form.

* Jeffrey

She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.

* F. W. Robertson

The very incarnation of selfishness.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation , the patent troll.}}

A living being embodying a deity or spirit.

An assumption of human form or nature.

A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like

The act of incarnating.

The state of being incarnated.

(obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.

(medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Noun

(personalities)

A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

An assumed role or manner of behavior.

A celebrity.

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

* 1959 , Lloyd Price, “Personality”:

But over and over / I´ll be a fool for you / 'cause you got 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.

*

Sharp personalities were exchanged.

* 1905 , ,

Perceiving that personalities were not out of order, I asked him what species of beast had long ago twisted and mutilated his left ear.

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

(Burrill)