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split personality

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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
Haller, Harry
middle-aged man battles two selves. [Ger. Lit.: Steppenwolf]
Jekyll, Dr., and Mr
. Hyde upright physician reduced to animality by potion. [Br. Lit.: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]
Three Faces of Eve, The
story of woman with three distinct personalities. [Am. Cinema: Bawden, 757 (Woodward, Joanne)]


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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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