personality

Related to personality: personality test, Personality types

affable personality

A personality that is friendly, approachable, sociable, amicable, or likeable. He might not be the best instructor in the school, but he has such an affable personality that he is everyone's favorite.
See also: personality

in the (something) stakes

In regards to having a large or adequate amount of some characteristic or trait. He's an incredibly talented artist, but there's quite a bit lacking in the human decency stakes. For my money, they have the single best operating system of any phone on the market, but they're so far behind in the popularity stakes with consumers that there's no way they can stay competitive.
See also: stake

Jekyll and Hyde

A person whose personality drastically changes between good and bad. A reference to the main character in the book Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever since Kyle became a teenager, he's turned into a real Jekyll and Hyde, and it's impossible to anticipate his mood at any given time.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Jekyll and Hyde

someone with both an evil and a good personality. (From the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.) Bill thinks Mary is so soft and gentle, but she can be very cruel—she is a real Jekyll and Hyde. Jane doesn't know that Fred is a Jekyll and Hyde. She sees him only when he is being kind and generous, but he can be very cruel.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

Jekyll and Hyde

A personality alternating between good and evil behavior, as in You never know whether Bob will be a Jekyll or a Hyde. This expression comes from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Also see lead a double life.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

Jekyll and Hyde

a person alternately displaying opposing good and evil personalities.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson , in which the physician Jekyll, in order to indulge his evil instincts, uses a drug to create the persona of Hyde, which at first he can assume at will but which gradually gains control of him.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

Jekyll and Hyde

An individual who has two completely different sides, one very good and the other evil. The term comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), in which one character can switch from the good Dr. Jekyll to the evil Mr. Hyde by taking a drug. Leslie Purnell Davies defined it in The Shadow Before (1971), “We are all a mixture of good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde if you like.”
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • affable personality
  • winning ways
  • get along with (one)
  • get along with you
  • on speaking terms
  • become friends with (someone)
  • good nature
  • good-natured
  • be out of (one's) shell
  • come out of one's shell, to
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As reviewed above, many attempts to examine the relation between resilience and personality have been made.
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Though changes in personality weren't the direct focus of the studies, these changes were revealed when treatment effects were analyzed.
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Robert Hogan, a psychologist and president of personality-test provider Hogan Assessments, said that an overwhelming amount of data supports the claim that personality predicts job performance better than any other known evaluation method, including interviews and IQ tests, Science Daily reported.
Personalities play an important role in job promotions
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Managers affect personalities, netizens say
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Moreover, only those qualities of a person are considered to be part of his personality which have some degree of permanence.
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Direct and Indirect Effect of Childhood Traumatic Experiences on Cluster-B Personality Disorders in Adults
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Assessment of personality disorders in students appearing for medical school entrance examination
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Behaviour not personality test matters