PERSONA (personae)
Dictionary entry overview: What does persona mean?
• PERSONA (noun)
The noun PERSONA has 2 senses:
1. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
Familiarity information: PERSONA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PERSONA (noun)
Meaning:
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
persona; theatrical role; role; character; part
Context example:
she played the part of Desdemona
Hypernyms ("persona" is a kind of...):
characterization; enactment; personation; portrayal (acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "persona"):
bit part; minor role (a small role)
heavy (a serious (or tragic) role in a play)
hero (the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem)
ingenue (the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play)
name part; title role (the role of the character after whom the play is named)
heroine (the main good female character in a work of fiction)
baddie; villain (the principle bad character in a film or work of fiction)
Meaning:
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
persona; image
Context example:
a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
Hypernyms ("persona" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Carl Gustav Jung; Carl Jung; Jung (Swiss psychologist (1875-1961))
