Persona
[pə'səʊnə;pɜː-] or [pɚ'sonə]
Definition
(noun.) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; 'a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty'.
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Definition
(n.) Same as Person, n., 8.
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Definition
n. a person.—Persona grata a person who is acceptable to those to whom he is sent.—Dramatis person the characters in a play or story.
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Examples
- To the gateman EVERY ONE was persona non grata without proper credentials, and Edison had to wait outside until he could get some one to identify him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything _in propria persona_, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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