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split personality 1. the tendency to change rapidly in mood or temperament 2. a nontechnical term for multiple personality split personality [′split ‚pər·sə′nal·əd·ē] (psychology) The condition in which there is a separation of various components of the normal personality unit, and each component functions as an independent entity. Split Personality Haller, Harry middle-aged man battles two selves. [Ger. Lit.: Steppenwolf] . Hyde upright physician reduced to animality by potion. [Br. Lit.: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] story of woman with three distinct personalities. [Am. Cinema: Bawden, 757 (Woodward, Joanne)] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Southern California's residential real estate market finished last year with a split personality -- prices setting a record while sales tumbled to their lowest annual level since 1998, an industry tracker said Tuesday. The split personality of the Chinese economic reform can be seen, on the one hand, in the tremendous opportunities for self-improvement and upward mobility that all seven protagonists in the book actively sought. Set against San Francisco's Golden Gate landscape, de Young's curious double-headed form has given it a unique split personality, grazing on Eucalyptus and grass at one end and inquisitively twisting its long neck at the other to survey the city beyond. |
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