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persona
[ per-soh-nuh ]
noun
- a person.
- personae, the characters in a play, novel, etc.
- the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author.
- (in the psychology of C. G. Jung) the mask or façade presented to satisfy the demands of the situation or the environment and not representing the inner personality of the individual; the public personality ( anima ).
- a person's perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image; public role.
persona
/ pɜːˈsəʊnə /
noun
- often plural a character in a play, novel, etc
- an assumed identity or character
- (in Jungian psychology) the mechanism that conceals a person's true thoughts and feelings, esp in his adaptation to the outside world
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Origin of persona1
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Example Sentences
Christie may have his faults, but he oozes the everyman persona.
“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.
But Cocker proved to be a survivor, bringing his passionate persona to concert halls around the world decade after decade.
You have a pretty sexy online persona, what with the constant bikinis.
Indeed, in as much as clothes define us, Hurley had the strange distinction of having her persona defined by a dress.
To make my position more intolerable, I am persona non grata with both sides.
Our witness, in any case, would not be a persona grata to the Society for Psychical Research.
Burleigh was evidently persona non grata in the eyes of both.
I may have been persona non grata, but, if so, she did not express her feeling.
Seeing that I would henceforth be persona non grata at the palace, I sought obscurity in the writing and publication of books.
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