Personality vs Notable - What's the difference?
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A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 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”:
Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
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* 1905 , ,
(legal) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.
(obsolete) Useful; profitable.
* 1754 , James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign :
Prudent; clever; capable; industrious; thrifty.
* 1863 , Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's lovers :
Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
(dated) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
Personality is a related term of notable.
As nouns the difference between personality and notable
is that personality is a set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another while notable is a person or thing of distinction.As an adjective notable is
(obsolete) useful; profitable or notable can be worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.personality
English
Noun
(personalities)- Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.
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- But over and over / I´ll be a fool for you / 'cause you got personality .
- Sharp personalities were exchanged.
- Perceiving that personalities were not out of order, I asked him what species of beast had long ago twisted and mutilated his left ear.
- (Burrill)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* addictive personality * borderline personality disorder * multiple personalities * subpersonalityReferences
Anagrams
*notable
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him.
- Hester looked busy and notable with her gown pinned up behind her, and her hair all tucked away under a clean linen cap; [...]
Etymology 2
From (etyl) notable, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] how sayest thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
- A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
