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PERSONALITY INVENTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits
Example:
a personality inventory is a direct test of personality, as contrasted with a projective test
Synonyms:
personality assessment; personality inventory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)