personalty
Americannoun
plural
personaltiesnoun
Etymology
Origin of personalty
1600–10; < Anglo-French personalte < Late Latin persōnālitās personality
Example Sentences
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The film doesn’t attempt to fit these two halves of his personalty together.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
After attending Yale, Cornell and Le Cordon Bleu throughout the 1980s, Tsai became recognized for his restaurant Blue Ginger, as well as becoming a burgeoning television personalty in the nascent days of Food Network.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023
Players also go through a litany of personalty tests at these events.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018
Thank you for all your films, and being such a positive personalty!
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017
And I declare that my real estate shall for the purposes of this my Will be considered as converted into personalty upon my decease.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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