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person agreement |
person hour |
person of color |
person of colour |
person-to-person |
persona
| persona grata
| persona non grata
| personable
| personableness
| personage
persona
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun persona has 2 senses
- persona(n = noun.cognition) character, part, role, theatrical role - an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" is a kind of characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal
- persona(n = noun.attribute) image - (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
has particulars: bit part, minor role, heavy, hero, ingenue, name part, title role, heroine, baddie, villain
Derived forms verb impersonate2, verb impersonate1, verb personify2
Derived form verb personify2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
persona, n. (pl. personae)
1 an aspect of the personality as shown to or perceived by others (opp. ANIMA).
2 Literary criticism an author's assumed character in his or her writing.
1 an aspect of the personality as shown to or perceived by others (opp. ANIMA).
2 Literary criticism an author's assumed character in his or her writing.
Idiom
persona grata a person, esp. a diplomat, acceptable to certain others. persona non grata a person not acceptable.
Etymology
L (as PERSON)
THESAURUS
persona
an existence, anima, article, being, body, character, coconscious, collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, creature, critter, death instinct, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, entelechy, entity, ethical self, exterior, facade, face, foreconscious, front, guise, id, identity, individual, integer, item, libidinal energy, libido, life, mask, mind, module, monad, motive force, object, organism, part, person, personality, pleasure principle, point, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, role, self, single, singleton, something, soul, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, thing, unconscious, unconscious mind, unit, vital impulse
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