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.

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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

(en-noun)

Not a real person; a subhuman.

*1989 , Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying , page 146

*:As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson , forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?

*1994 , Lisa J. McIntyre, Law in the Sociological Enterprise , page 92

*:Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson .

*1998 , John E. Tropman, Does America Hate the Poor? , page 6

*:How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson .

Not a legal entity.

Something other than a person; an object.

*1995 , Roger K. R. Thompson, Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals'', in ''Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science , page 179

*:Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.

*2001 , Eric T. Olson, A Compound of Two Substances'', in ''Soul, Body, and Survival , page 77

*:No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.

*2002 , Ritva Laury, Interaction, grounding, and third-person referential forms'', in ''Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference (Frank Brisard, ed.), page 85

*:For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson , since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.