multiple personality

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nounPsychiatry.
  1. a rare disorder in which an individual displays several functionally dissociated personalities, each of a complexity comparable to that of a normal individual.

Origin of multiple personality

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First recorded in 1900–05

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How to use multiple personality in a sentence

  • But we do find in real life cases of dissociation of the personality, also called cases of double or multiple personality.

    Psychology | Robert S. Woodworth
  • And what must we think of the strange facts of multiple personality?

    The Drama of Love and Death | Edward Carpenter

British Dictionary definitions for multiple personality

multiple personality

noun
  1. psychiatry a mental disorder in which an individual's personality appears to have become separated into two or more distinct personalities, each with its own complex organization: Nontechnical name: split personality

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