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Definition: Personality |
PersonalityNoun1. The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others". 2. A person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "personality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In psychology, personality refers to the emotion, thought, and behavior patterns unique to an individual.
Through the course of western thought, different theories have been put forth to explain the human personality.
Sigmund Freud broke the human personality down to three significant components: the id, the ego, and the superego. Personality is shaped by the interworkings and conflicts of the three.
B. F. Skinner, a proponent of behaviorism, suggested that the human personality is developed through external stimuli.
Albert Bandura, a social-learning theorist suggested that the forces of memory and feelings worked in conjunction with environmental influences
Gordon Allport delineates three kinds of traits with varying degrees of intensity: cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits.
Paul Costa breaks the personality down into five basic dimensions:
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers emphasize the basic goodness of people.
- personality"introverson-extroversion
- friendly compliance"hostile noncompliance
- will
- neuroticism
- openness to experience
Types of personality tests include the Rorschach test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator, and the Thematic Apperception Test.
See also: Alter ego, Will (philosophy), Dissociative identity disorder.
The word 'personality' is used to describe a celebrity.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Personality."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual difference processes - that which makes us into a person. A large part of the work of personality psychologists has been defining what is, and what is not, personality. A scientific consensus has not been achieved.The most common models incorporate four or five broad dimensions or factors. The least controversial dimension, observed as far back as the ancient Greeks, is:
The so-called five-factor models or Big Five models add the following four factors:
- extraversion (outgoing and people-oriented vs. shy and task-oriented)
Whereas the more traditional Big Four models accept extraversion as basic, and add the following three only:
- emotional stability (calm, unperturbable, optimistic vs. emotionally reactive, prone to negative emotions),
- agreeableness (affable, friendly, conciliatory vs. aggressive, dominant, disagreeable),
- conscientiousness (dutiful, planful, and orderly vs. spontaneous, flexible, and unreliable), and
- openness (open to new ideas and change vs. traditional and staid).
In these more traditional models, the intuition factor is considered the most basic, dividing people into "N" or "S" personality types. An "N" is further assumed to be guided by the thinking or objectication habit, or feelings, and be divided into "NT" (scientist, engineer) or "NF" (author, human-oriented leader) personality. An "S", by contrast, is assumed to be more guided by the perception axis, and thus divided into "SP" (performer, craftsman, artisan) and "SJ" (guardian, accountant, bureaucrat) personality. These four are considered basic, with the other two factors in each case (including always extraversion) less important.
- intuition (trust in internal models of reality versus sensory input)
- thinking (willingness or capacity to abstract/objectify vs. tendency to feel/subjectify)
- perception (willingness to wait before making a decision vs. habit of taking a decision as early as possible)
Critics of this traditional view have observed that the types are quite strongly stereotyped by professions, and thus may arise more from the need to categorize people for purposes of guiding their career choice. This among other objections led to the emergence of the five factor view, which is less concerned with behavior under work stress and more concerned with behavior in personal and emotional circumstances.
Some critics have argued for more or fewer dimensions while others have proposed entirely different theories (often assuming different definitions of "personality").
A criticism of personality theory as a whole is that it leads people of little experience in clinical psychology to accept classifications, or worse offer advice, based on superficial analysis of one's profile.
See also: clinical psychology, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
External links
- Personality Theories
- The personality project
- Thesis on the interpersonal theory of personality
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Personality psychology."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback. |
Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback. | |
Disapprobation | Evil-speaking; bad language; personality. |
Discourtesy | Scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality. |
Immateriality | Personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit. (soul); astral body; immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist. |
Speciality | Noun: {opp. } speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; (tendency); personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness; Adjective: singularity; (unconformity); reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia. |
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Screenplays | which described his hobby and his personality. Evans the Bacon, and Evans the End of the World (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a ; writing credit: Christopher Monger.) You didn't bring me along for my charming personality. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Yes I was saying that we're dealing with a middle-of-the-night personality with possible paranoid schizo (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) Oh how I've missed your sparkling personality. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) I don't remember a time in my whole life when I haven't been close to complete personality disintegration (Real Life; writing credit: Albert Brooks; Monica Mcgowan Johnson) | |
Lyrics | His real personality (Muscles; performing artist: Diana Ross) Looks ain't everything she's got the sweetest personality (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Personality (1967) Duel Personality (1966) Split Personality (1959) Personality Puzzle (1953) Improve Your Personality (1951) | |
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 | Practical Instruction In Personality Study & Flight Surgeon Duties On The FlyingField : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Personality essay by Craig Dennis. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | There was more color in Lady Cissie's personality than in anyone I have ever looked at. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Claude Bernard | A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is WE. |
Guillaume Apollinaire | To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. |
Jack Paar | I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Personality is everything in art and poetry. |
Norman O. Brown | I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. |
Peter De Vries | The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. |
Soren Kierkegaard | Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. |
Walt Whitman | Character and Personality are the only investments worth anything. |
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United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You have told me that you were the bishop, but that tells me nothing about your moral personality. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea. |
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Health | Other symptoms of Alzheimer's disease include personality changes and impairment of judgment. (references) | |
There, toxins can dull mental functioning and cause personality changes, coma, and even death. (references) | ||
Other researchers are searching for changes in personality that may herald the onset of Alzheimer's. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mexico | In January a judge acquitted six persons charged with killing popular television personality, Francisco "Paco" Stanley. (references) |
Korea | Visitors report that one of the primary functions of plays, movies, operas, children's performances, and books is to contribute to the cult of personality surrounding Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The Government reportedly has reached an agreement with a foreign NGO to allow the establishment of a university to be run jointly by the Government and the NGO. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The police released the journalist; however, they kept his press card and refused to let him near the house of a political personality he wanted to interview. (references) | |
Economic History | Romania | Romania's 1991 constitution proclaims Romania a democracy and market economy, in which human dignity, civic rights and freedoms, the unhindered development of human personality, justice, and political pluralism are supreme and guaranteed values. (references) |
The Holy See | As the "central government" of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See has a legal personality that allows it to enter into treaties as the juridical equal of a state and to send and receive diplomatic representatives. (references) | |
Switzerland | The establishment of commercial presence by persons or enterprises without legal personality under Swiss law requires an establishment authorization according to cantonal law. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Even after Kim Il Sung's death, his cult of personality and the glorification of his family and the official juche ideology remained omnipresent. (references) |
Political Economy | Korea | Both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il continue to be the objects of intense personality cults. (references) |
Turkmenistan | The media further intensified its focus on President Niyazov, the subject of a personality cult throughout the country. (references) | |
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James Van Praagh | I'm tuning into a personality which they have lived on this Earth level. That's what I'm tuning into. |
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| "Personality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.82% of the time. "Personality" is used about 2,853 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.82% | 2,848 | 3,249 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,853 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "personality": anal personality ♦ anal retentive personality ♦ Antisocial Personality Disorder ♦ Borderline Personality Disorder ♦ Cattell Personality Factor Questionnaire ♦ Compulsive Personality Disorder ♦ cult of personality ♦ Dependent Personality Disorder ♦ dual personality ♦ eccentric personality ♦ genital personality ♦ Histrionic Personality Disorder ♦ important personality ♦ multiple personality ♦ Multiple Personality Disorder ♦ narcissistic personality ♦ oral personality ♦ outgoing personality ♦ Paranoid Personality Disorder ♦ Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder ♦ Personality Assessment ♦ Personality change ♦ personality Characteristics ♦ personality clash ♦ personality conflict ♦ personality cult ♦ Personality Development ♦ personality disorder ♦ Personality Disorders ♦ Personality Inventory ♦ personality module ♦ personality profile ♦ personality test ♦ personality testing ♦ Personality Tests ♦ psychopathic personality ♦ sadistic personality ♦ Schizoid Personality Disorder ♦ schizotypal personality ♦ Schizotypal Personality Disorder ♦ sociopathic personality ♦ split personality ♦ test of personality ♦ Type A Personality ♦ very important personality ♦ weaknesses of the Hacker Personality. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "personality": personality-based, personality-projecting, personality-selling, personality-type, personality-typing, personality-wise. | |
Ending with "personality": split-personality, sub-personality. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "personality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | karakter (character, nature), aard (character, nature). (various references) | |
Albanian | personalitet (character, figure, individuality, persona, personage, self-hood), njeri i shquar (Don, notability, notable, personage, socialite, standout), individualitet (individuality, self-hood), gjëra personale, figurë (character, figure, figure of speech, illustration, image, personage, piece, step). (various references) | |
Arabic | هوية ذاتية (identity), نقد شخصي, قوة الشخصية وجاذبيتها, الوجود الشخصي, الشخصية (subjectivity), شخصية (being, character, figure, individuality, persona, personage, spirit), شخص معروف, شخص مشهور (celebrity), شخص بارز (worthy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | знаменитост (celebrity, light, lion, name, notability, notoriety, prominence, star, worthy), личност (figure, individuality, party, person), личен характер, индивидуалност (color, colour, individuality, self-hood, thisness), изтъкната личност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 個性 (individuality), 个性 (Individualities, individuality, Particularities, Particularity, Personalities). (various references) | |
Czech | osobnost (celebrity, figure, personage), hvìzda (cartwheel, catherine wheel, dog star, star). (various references) | |
Danish | karakter (character, nature). (various references) | |
Dutch | karakter (character, nature), geaardheid (character, nature), aard (character, kind, nature, sort, temporary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | personeco, karaktero (character, nature). (various references) | |
Farsi | هویت (Identity), وجود (Essence, Existence, Person, Quality), صفت شخص , اخلاق وخصوصیات شخص , شخصیت (Character, Identity, Individuality, Personage, Self). (various references) | |
Finnish | persoonallisuus, luonne (character, disposition). (various references) | |
French | personnalité. (various references) | |
Frisian | wêzen (character, nature), aard (character, nature). (various references) | |
German | Persönlichkeit (bigwig, character, characters, figure, individuality, personage), Charakter (character, mettle, moral courage, nature, temper, temperament). (various references) | |
Greek | προσωπικότητα (celebrity, character, individuality, panjandrum, persona, personage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עצמיות (character, own, self, selfhood), אישיות (character, figure, persona, personage, self). (various references) | |
Hungarian | személyiség (character, individual, personage, selfhood), egyéniség (individuality, presence, selfhood). (various references) | |
Icelandic | persónuleiki (character, nature), æði (character, nature, quite, very, very much). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kepribadian (individuality). (various references) | |
Italian | personalit (characters, worthy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風 (appearance, style), 人物 (character, person), 人物 (character, man, person, personage, talented man), 人柄 (character, gentility, personal appearance), 人 (character, individuality), 人" (character, personal appearance), 人 (adult, character, human being, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, other people, people, person, true man, visitor), バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, perspective, purge, purse, purser), 性 (character), 性 (character), 個人性 (idiosyncrasy, individuality), 個性 (idiosyncrasy, individuality), 個性 (idiosyncrasy, individuality), タレット旋盤 (star, talent, tank, tank breathing, tank lorry, tank top, tanker, tongue, tower, turret lathe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パーソナリティー , パーソナリティ , ひとがら (character, gentility, personal appearance), ひと (adult, bandit, character, condemning, denouncing, human being, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, other people, people, person, spending, true man, visitor), ふうかく (appearance, style), に" (adult, character, charge, duty, human being, kernel, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, obligation, other people, people, person, responsibility, true man, visitor), せいかく (accurate, authenticity, character, correct rules, exactness, guest of honor, precise, punctuality, tanning, veracity), "せい (ancient establishment, ancient laws, ancient sage, dextrin, idiosyncrasy, individuality), "じ"せい (idiosyncrasy, individuality), タレント (star, talent), じ"ぶつ (character, man, person, personage, talented man), じ"かく (character, individuality), じ"ぴ" (character, personal appearance). (various references) | |
Korean | 개성 (Personalities). (various references) | |
Manx | persoonid. (various references) | |
Norwegian | karakter (character, grade, nature). (various references) | |
Papiamen | karakter (character, nature). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ersonalitypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | personalidade (individuality, persona, self, spirit). (various references) | |
Romanian | personalitate (anybody, figure, individual, individuality, keyman, name, notable, originality, person, personage, self, somebody), persoanã importantã (grandee, great gun, it, personage, socialite), referinţã individualã, individualitate (individual, individuality, particularity, self), aluzii ofensatoare (personal). (various references) | |
Russian | личность (bod 1, character, identity, individual, person, selfhood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ugledan čovek, osoba (human, kipper, man, one, person), ličnost (character, figure, individual, person). (various references) | |
Spanish | personalidad (characters, chutzpah, presence, self), naturaleza (character, nature), indole (character, nature). (various references) | |
Swedish | personlighet (character, mind, personage, self-hood). (various references) | |
Turkish | kişilik (character, fiber, fibre, for ... persons, for person, humanity, identity, seated, seater, self, stature), karakter (character, constitution, fiber, fibre, form, person, persona, personage, self, strain), bireylik, benlik (ego, individuality), şahsiyet (figure, individuality, it, personage, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юahsyяet (identity), юahs (identity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | індивідуальність (egoity, identity, individuality, selfhood), видатна особа (personage), особистість (individual, name, person, self). (various references) | |
Welsh | personoliaeth (benefice, parsonage). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | persona, personae, personam, personarum, personas, personis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "personality": impersonality. (additional references) | |
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"Personality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: personaity, personalist, personalistic, personallity, personlity, personnality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "personality" (pronounced per'suna"lutē) |
| 10 | p er' s u n a" l u t ē | impersonality. |
| 7 | -u n a" l u t ē | banality, commonality, conditionality, constitutionality, criminality, dimensionality, functionality, irrationality, nationality, originality, proportionality, rationality, venality. |
| 6 | -n a" l u t ē | finality, tonality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, confidentiality, congeniality, criticality, cyclicality, legality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, formality, frugality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, neutrality, normality, partiality, plurality, practicality, principality, punctuality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | acceptability, accessibility, ability, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, irresponsibility, irritability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, laity, laxity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antileprosy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: epistolary, interplays, personalty. | |
-2 letters: aepyornis, antipoles, atropines, interlaps, interlays, interplay, layperson, operantly, orientals, painterly, patronise, ponytails, relations, royalties, sapiently, saprolite, serotinal, splintery, terpinols, traplines, triplanes. | |
-3 letters: ailerons, alienors, anolytes, antipole, asperity, atropine, atropins, elations, entrails, epinasty, inlayers, insolate, interlap, interlay, lanosity, latrines, nitrosyl, notaries, opalines, operants, oriental, ornately, painters, panelist, pantiles, pantries, patronly. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: impersonality, lycanthropies. | |
+3 letters: isentropically, pertinaciously, polymerisation, supernormality. | |
+4 letters: hyperinflations, hypersalivation, interparoxysmal, interpersonally, phenylthioureas, polycrystalline, polymerisations, polymerizations, prepositionally, proselytization. | |
+5 letters: hypersalivations, hyperstimulation, phenylketonurias, proselytizations, stenographically, stereophonically. | |
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