personalnessn.
/ˈpəːsn̩l̩nəs/, /ˈpəːs(ə)nl̩nəs/, U.S. /ˈpərs(ə)nəlnəs/ The quality of being personal or of belonging to a person. Also: the condition of being a person.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal
personality1747
personalism1846
personalness1853
1853 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Feb. 58 The frame seems passive..to the pressure of a force, whether mechanical or intelligent, that has nothing of personalness or freedom in it.
1879 P. Brooks Infl. of Jesus iii. 194 It is this personalness of all His moral enthusiasms..that keeps us from ever feeling or fearing in Jesus any of that moral pedantry.
1915 A. Vonier Personality of Christ vii. 45 A most glorious assertion of God's ‘personalness’.
1976 Early Music 4 404/2 I certainly agree that the producer must do things ‘in a manner which is personal’, but I doubt whether the personalness need or should be as private, intransigent, perhaps irresponsible, as Craig implies.
1981 P. Hinchliff & D. Young Human Potential i. 8 He will shy away from the general hypothesis that personalness is absolute.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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