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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.
Dictionary entry details
• PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)
Sense 1
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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