MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory mean? 

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

1. a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI

Hypernyms ("Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory" is a kind of...):

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)