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)

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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)

Noun

(-)

The state, quality, or condition of being or existing; existence.

* 1887 , George Jamieson, Discussions on the atonement: Is it vicarious? :

As it is alone supposable that subjective mind can operate on objective substance; as it is not conceivable that objective material can itself be the absolute basis or foundation of beinghood , or can of itself, and as such, [...]

* 1987 , Sukharanjan Saha, Perspectives on Nyaya logic and epistemology :

Is the universal of beinghood itself being or not-being?

* 1997 , Plato, Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, Plato's Sophist, or, The professor of wisdom :

Let us therefore obtain an account from both kinds of men in turn on behalf of the beinghood they posit.

* 2011 , Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli, Friedman Lester, The Picture of Health :

For an individual to enjoy beinghood , they must have the capacity for subjective experiences [...]

Personhood; personality.

* 1873 , Sara S. Hennell, Present religion: as a faith owning fellowship with thought :

[...] to the whole notion, that this realized Personality is, of right, not attributable to the Divine Beinghood , which to me is of right but symbolical, but needful to be known by us as only affecting the human Self.