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PERSONALITY TEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any test that is intended to assess personality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("personality test" is a kind of...):
mental test; mental testing; psychometric test; test (any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personality test"):
projective device; projective technique; projective test (any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations)
personality assessment; personality inventory (a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits)