split personality
noun
1
a
: schizophrenia
—not used technically
b
: multiple personality disorder
—not used technically
2
: a dual nature or character
a city with a split personality
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Inside is where the Explorer's split personality really starts to show, however.
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Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
By the nineteen-seventies, Lighthizer had left Ashtabula, too, moving from Catholic schools to Georgetown and then to a career as a conservative lawyer, in a party that, in his view, has always had a split personality.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
On Magnus Carlsen, Elon Musk, China, Cuba, Jerry West, Long Island, and more
Many of us have a split personality.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
Another medical name that's been changed is dissociative identity disorder – a condition that affects only about 1.5% of people and was formerly called multiple personality disorder, or split personality disorder.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
By the nineteen-seventies, Lighthizer had left Ashtabula, too, moving from Catholic schools to Georgetown and then to a career as a conservative lawyer, in a party that, in his view, has always had a split personality.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
On Magnus Carlsen, Elon Musk, China, Cuba, Jerry West, Long Island, and more
Many of us have a split personality.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
Another medical name that's been changed is dissociative identity disorder – a condition that affects only about 1.5% of people and was formerly called multiple personality disorder, or split personality disorder.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Split personality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/split%20personality. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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