Noun

(en noun)

A famous or important person.

* 1872 , , The Poet at the Breakfast-Table , page 230:

I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage , I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.

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)