| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The combination of emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities that distinguishes an individual: character, complexion, disposition, makeup, personality. See BE. 2. A person's customary manner of emotional response: complexion, disposition, humor, temper, temperament. See BE. 3. A basic trait or set of traits that define and establish the character of something: being, essence, essentiality, quintessence, substance, texture. See SURFACE. 4. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: breed, cast, description, feather, ilk, kind2, lot, manner, mold, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal : persuasion. See GROUP. 5. The totality of all existing things: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world. See MATTER, PART.
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