dual personality

noun

, Psychology.

1. a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dual personality¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Somewhere, and by straight line of descent, these two parties to my dual personality were connected.

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In some women there seems at times to be a dual personality, a woman of the blood at odds with a woman of the grey matter.

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There's the same dual personality in you that there is in me talking among friends and preaching in this pulpit.

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A bird with a dual personality; welcome minstrel of the meadows when nesting, dread scourge of the rice-fields when traveling.

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Guy has a dual personality compounded of loyalty to his master and love for humanity at large.

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