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Split Personality

Definition: Split Personality

Split Personality

Noun

1. A relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Split Personality

Synonym: multiple personality (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Split Personality

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Split Personality (1959)

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Commercial Usage: Split Personality

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Music

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Split Personality

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

split personality

108

split personality disorder

26
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Modern Translation: Split Personality

Language Translations for "split personality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

раздвоение на личността, шизофрения (precocious dementia, schizophrenia). (various references)

   

Danish

  

spaltet personlighed (dissociated personality), personlighedsspaltning (disturbed behaviour, double personality, dual personality, multiple personality, personality disorders, personality dissociation, personality disturbances), dobbeltgaengeroplevelse (phenomenon of duplicated personality). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

splijting van de persoonlijkheid (double personality, dual personality, personality dissociation), gespleten persoonlijkheid (dissociated personality), dubbelgangerbeleving (phenomenon of duplicated personality), beleving van dubbelganger (phenomenon of duplicated personality). (various references)

   

French

  

personnalité double, personnalité dissociée, expérience du dédoublement, dédoublement de la personnalité. (various references)

   

German

  

Persönlichkeitsspaltung (multiple personality), gespaltene Persönlichkeit (dissociated personality), Doppelgaengererlebnis (phenomenon of duplicated personality). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διχασμένη προσωπικότητα (dissociated personality). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tudathasadás (dissociation, dual personality, schizophrenia, split mind). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sdoppiamento di personalita (double personality, dual personality, personality dissociation), personalit dissociata (dissociated personality). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itsplay ersonalitypay

   

Portuguese

  

dupla personalidade (bipersonality, double personality, dual personality, personality dissociation), desdobramento da personalidade (dissociated personality). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздвоение личности. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

personalidad dual (bipersonality, dissociated personality, double personality, dual personality), personalidad doble (dissociated personality), desdoblamiento de la personalidad (double personality, dual personality, personality dissociation, phenomenon of duplicated personality). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ikiz kişilikli olma, çift kişiliklilik. (various references)

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Anagrams: Split Personality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: inappositely, orientalists, streptolysin.

-5 letters: antileprosy, antipyresis, antistories, leptospiral, literalists, literations, orientalist, parotitises, personalist, personality, petitionary, pinspotters, poinsettias, pointlessly, potentially, potentillas, propellants, propitiates, sensorially, septillions, tortellinis, tripletails.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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