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dual personality

noun

Psychology.
  1. a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of dual personality1

First recorded in 1900–05
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He acknowledged that he found the company’s dual personality hard to comprehend, noting that most bad landlords keep a low profile.

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The external pressures have been compounded by tensions stemming from the A.T.F.’s dual personality as a law enforcement and regulatory agency responsible for monitoring the nation’s 75,000 shops, pawn brokers, manufacturers and importers that buy and sell guns.

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Agatha Christie featured characters with split consciousness or dual personality in her short-story collection The Hound of Death.

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In an interview conducted at this time with an NCC student, Austin described what he called the “dual personality†of the black ruling class.

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This was why, they thought, Asian-Americans were always described as having a “dual heritage†or “dual personality,†and thus as being part alien, even after having been here for generations.

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