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.

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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

(women)

An adult female human.

* Bible, (w) 2:22:

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .

* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men

* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:

But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.

(lb) All females collectively; womankind.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).

* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":

And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.

* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:

Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

A female attendant or servant.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

By her woman I sent your message.