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• his wife has a strong personality.
• my outgoing personality has definitely helped me succeed.
• he maintained order by sheer force of personality.
• normal human personality traits (= qualities), such as shyness

personality

1. the various aspects of a person’s character that combine to make them different from other people
• His wife has a strong personality.
• My outgoing personality has definitely helped me succeed.
• He maintained order by sheer force of personality.
• normal human personality traits (= qualities), such as shyness
• Participants identified their own personality type and explored the implications.
• The characters' names reflect their personalities.
• There are likely to be tensions and personality clashes in any social group.
• People’s clothes are often an expression of their personality.

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• Barbara has a very forceful personality.
• For the first time she was seeing the more unpleasant aspects of her husband's personality.
• From your personality profile, it seems you're interested in politics.
• He has achieved success by the sheer strength of his personality.
• His choice of clothes reflects his personality.
• She manages to project a very distinct personality.
• She stamped her personality on the company.
• The events of her early life shaped her personality.
• The job didn't really suit my personality.
• There was a personality clash between two members of the committee.
• a troubled man who had a vulnerable personality
• her amiable nature and easy-going personality
• personality conflicts between a faculty member and a student
• Her clothes reflect her lively personality.
• All candidates have to undergo a personality test.
• He developed a split personality after the crash (= began to suffer from split-personality disorder).
• The children all have very different personalities.
2. the qualities of a person’s character that make them interesting and attractive
• We need someone with lots of personality to head the project.
• She was very beautiful but seemed to lack personality.

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• He had no screen presence and lacked any real personality.
• He has the presence and personality to hold audiences spellbound.
• She has brought out her husband's personality since their relationship began.
3. a famous person, especially one who works in entertainment or sport
• SYNONYM celebrity
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/celebrity
• a well-known TV/radio/sports personality
• Various personalities from the world of music were invited.

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• In a viewers' poll he was voted TV Personality of the Year.
• a broadcast network with well-known on-air personalities
4. a person whose strong character attracts attention
• Their son is a real personality.
5. the qualities of a place or thing that make it interesting and different
• SYNONYM character
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/character
• The problem with many modern buildings is that they lack personality.
• Interesting displays can add personality to your store window.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (referring to the fact of being a person rather than an animal or thing): from Old French personalite, from medieval Latin personalitas, from Latin personalis ‘of a person’, from persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, later ‘human being’. Senses (1) and (2) date from the late 18th cent.