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Personality vs Prosopopesis - What's the difference?

personality | prosopopesis |

As nouns the difference between personality and prosopopesis

is that personality is a set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another while prosopopesis is a sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.

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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    prosopopesis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (parapsychology, rare) A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.
  • * {{quote-journal, passage=Mr. Soal declares that while the presence of certain persons is favorable to his duplication of personality and while some persons actually aid the prosopopesis , others have an inhibitive influence.
  • , publisher=American Society for Psychical Research , page=381 , title=Psychic research, Volume 23 , year=1929}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Later, French psychical researcher René Sudre (1880-1968) discussed what he referred to as prosopopesis or the nonconscious tendency to impersonate, as seen in mediumship, as well as in hypnosis, possession and cases of double and multiple personality.
  • , publisher=ABC-CLIO , page=105 , title=Altering Consciousness: Multidisiplinary Perspectives , author=Etzel Cardeña, Michael Winkelman , year=2011 , ISBN=0313383081, 9780313383083}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Walter is good-naturedly willing to be called a "secondary personality," a "hypnotic impersonation", a "mindkin" (C.D.Broad), a "prosopopesis " (Sudre) or "entelechy" (Driesch). In fact, he says, "You may call me anything but 'It'!"
  • , publisher=Ayer Publishing , page=94 , title=The case for and against psychical belief , author=Carl Allanmore Murchison , year=1975 , ISBN=0405070373, 9780405070372}}

    See also

    * dissociative identity disorder * possession * * trance