personality disorder

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Etymology

From personality +‎ disorder.

Noun

personality disorder (plural personality disorders)

  1. (psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136:
      They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.
    • 1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices (fiction), page 442:
      Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them. It would be far less difficult to eradicate Diane's giant rose tattoo than it would be to change her perception of herself and others.

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