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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

noun

, Psychology.
  1. a widely used test designed to identify configurations of personality traits in normal persons and to study the personality patterns occurring in various types of mental illness. : MMPI

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory1

First recorded in 1940–45; after the University of Minnesota, where it was developed

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