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Personality vs Divinity - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between personality and divinity

is that personality is a set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another while divinity is (uncountable) the property of being divine, of being like a god or god.

personality

English

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)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * addictive personality * borderline personality disorder * multiple personalities * subpersonality

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    divinity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being divine, of being like a god or God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
  • (countable) A deity.
  • A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
  • * Cheyne
  • God employing these subservient divinities
  • (uncountable) The study of religion or religions.
  • Harvard Divinity School has been teaching theology since 1636.
  • A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
  • Synonyms

    * (property of being divine ): godliness, godship * (deity ): deity, god, godship * (study ): godlore, theology

    Derived terms

    * Bachelor of Divinity * case divinity * divinitise, divinitize * divinity bindings * divinity calf, divinity-calf * divinity fudge * divinity hall * divinity school * divinityship * Doctor of Divinity * * indivinity * * Master of Divinity * * * school-divinity * systematic divinity