personality

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The quality or condition of being a person.
2. n. The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.
3. n. The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person: Though their personalities differed, they got along as friends.
4. n. Distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing: won the election more on personality than on capability. See Synonyms at disposition.
5. n. A person as the embodiment of distinctive traits of mind and behavior.
6. n. A person of prominence or notoriety: television personalities.
7. n. An offensively personal remark. Often used in the plural: Let's not engage in personalities.
8. n. The distinctive characteristics of a place or situation: furnishings that give a room personality.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The essential character of a person as distinguished from a thing; self-consciousness; existence as a self-conscious being; also, personal qualities or endowments considered collectively; a person. As a philosophical term personality commonly implies personal identity. See personal.
2. n. A personal characteristic or trait.
3. n. Limitation to particular persons or classes.
4. n. Direct applicability or application, as of a remark, an allusion, etc., to a person or individual: as, the personality of a remark.
5. n. An invidious or dreogatory remark made to or about a person, or his character, conduct, appearance, etc.: as, to indulge in personalities.
6. n. In law, personal estate. In this sense usually personalty.
7. n. in abnormal psychology, a group of experiences, split off or dissociated from the normal or primary personality of an individual, which become systematized and organized, and thus constitute a second, third, etc., independent (though imperfect) personality, appearing in alternation with the normal. The phenomena are sometimes termed those of double (triple, etc.) consciousness, or of double (triple, multiple) personality.

Wiktionary

1. n. A set of qualities that make a person (or thing) distinct from another.
2. n. An assumed role or manner of behavior.
3. n. A celebrity.
4. n. Charisma, or qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
5. n. Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
6. n. law That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which constitutes distinction of person; the externally evident aspects of the character or behavior of a person; individuality.
2. n. Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks.
3. n. (Law) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons.
4. n. A person who is famous or notable; a celebrity.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
2. n. a person of considerable prominence