| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, gal, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, living soul, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psyche, inspiration, energy |
| Synonyms: | anima, animating principle, animation, animus, ardor, bosom, bottom, breast, breath of life, cause, conscience, courage, disposition, ego, elan vital, essence, feeling, fervor, force, genius, heart, individuality, intellect, intelligence, life, marrow, mind, nobility, noumenon, personality, pith, pneuma, principle, quintessence, reason, recesses of heart, secret self, spirit, spiritual being, stuff, substance, thought, vital force, vitality, vivacity |
| Antonyms: | body |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | atmosphere, attitude, attribute, aura, character, climate, complexion, condition, constitution, disposition, drift, frame of mind, humor, individualism, individuality, leaning, makeup, mind, mood, nature, orientation, outlook, peculiarity, personality, posture, property, quality, scene, soul, spirit, state, strain, style, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing*, timbre, tone, trend, type, vein, way |
| Main Entry: | VIP |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very important person |
| Synonyms: | big cheese, big enchilada, big kahuna, big name, celebrity, dignitary, famous person, heavyweight, high muckamuck, luminary, mogul, notable, personality, public figure, star, superstar, top banana, worthy |
| Antonyms: | nobody, nonentity |
| Main Entry: | way |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | characteristic, habit |
| Synonyms: | aspect, behavior, circumstance, condition, conduct, consuetude, custom, detail, fashion, feature, fettle, form, gait, groove, guise, hook, idiosyncrasy, kick*, manner, nature, particular, personality, point, practice, praxis, respect, sense, shape, shot, situation, state, status, style, thing*, tone, trait, trick, usage, use, wont |
| Main Entry: | self |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | character, ego, egocentrism, identical, identity, individual, individuality, individualization, myself, narcissism, oneself, own, person, personal, personality, proprium, psyche, selfhood, substantive |
| Antonyms: | other |
| Main Entry: | true colors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one's real self |
| Synonyms: | cards on the table, heart on one's sleeve, personality, truth |
| Main Entry: | individualism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | identity |
| Synonyms: | character, circumstances, coherence, distinctiveness, existence, identification, individuality, integrity, ipseity, name, oneness, particularity, personality, self, selfdom, selfhood, selfness, singleness, singularity, status, uniqueness |
| Main Entry: | persona |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | character |
| Synonyms: | card*, case*, clown, crank, customer*, duck*, eccentric, figure, freak, nut*, oddball, oddity, original*, personage, personality, queer, spook, wack, weirdo*, zombie* |
| Notes: | anima is Carl Jung's term for the inner part of the personality or character, as opposed to the persona or outer part |