personalities
- 1Plural of personality.
The show brought together several famous personalities from television and sports.
Coworkers with strong personalities sometimes struggle to share a small office.
Note
The plural follows whichever meaning of personality is in play. Coworkers with strong personalities differ in character, while a show full of television personalities is full of celebrities. One dated use is easy to miss: personalities can also mean personal remarks, usually disparaging ones. To trade personalities in an argument is to stop debating the point and start attacking the person.
personalities is a form of personality
personality, noun: The combination of mental and social qualities that make one person different from another. Full entry
- Forms
- personalitypersonalities plural
- Spelling
- personality → personalities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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