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PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does personality inventory mean?

• PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)
The noun PERSONALITY INVENTORY has 1 sense:

1. a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits

Familiarity information: PERSONALITY INVENTORY used as a noun is very rare.

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• PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

personality assessment; personality inventory

Context example:

a personality inventory is a direct test of personality, as contrasted with a projective test

Hypernyms ("personality inventory" is a kind of...):

personality test (any test that is intended to assess personality)

questionnaire (a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personality inventory"):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)

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