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- human nature
the shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings - trait
a distinguishing feature of your personal nature - character
(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes - unit character
(genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene - thing
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence - common denominator
an attribute that is common to all members of a category - personality
the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual - identity, personal identity, individuality
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity - gender identity
your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female - identification
the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) - personhood
being a person - personableness
the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive - anal personality, anal retentive personality
(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve - genital personality
(psychoanalysis) the mature personality which is not dominated by infantile pleasure drives - narcissistic personality
personality marked by self-love and self-absorption - obsessive-compulsive personality
personality characterized by a strong need to repeat certain acts or rituals - oral personality
(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness - fiber, fibre, character
the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions - spirit
a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character - outwardness
a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) - inwardness, internality
preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) - spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness
concern with things of the spirit - worldliness
concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs - extraversion, extroversion
(psychology) an extroverted disposition - introversion
(psychology) an introverted disposition - ambiversion
(psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion - aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
a disposition toward being alone - friendlessness
being without friends - reclusiveness
a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation - seclusion, privacy, privateness
the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others - nature
the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions - animality, animal nature
the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect - disposition, temperament
your usual mood - complexion
(obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament - animalism, physicality
preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites - bloodiness, bloodthirstiness
a disposition to shed blood - heart, spirit
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind - nervousness
a sensitive or highly strung temperament - esprit de corps, morale, team spirit
the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed - restlessness, uneasiness, queasiness
inability to rest or relax or be still - jactitation, jactation
(pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness - skittishness, restiveness
characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright - compulsiveness, compulsivity
the trait of acting compulsively - obsessiveness, obsessivity
extreme compulsiveness - workaholism
compulsiveness about working - emotionality, emotionalism
emotional nature or quality - drama
the quality of being arresting or highly emotional - demonstrativeness
tending to express your feelings freely - affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth
a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love - tenderness
a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling - uxoriousness
foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife - mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
falsely emotional in a maudlin way - corn
something sentimental or trite - schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music - sentimentalism
a predilection for sentimentality - heat, warmth, passion
the trait of being intensely emotional - fieriness
a passionate and quick-tempered nature - temperament
excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) - moodiness
having temperamental and changeable moods - blood
temperament or disposition - excitability, excitableness, volatility
being easily excited - boiling point
being highly angry or excited - unemotionality, emotionlessness
absence of emotion - blandness
the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern - coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness
a lack of affection or enthusiasm - stone
a lack of feeling or expression or movement - dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness
objectivity and detachment - stoicism, stolidity, stolidness
an indifference to pleasure or pain - tepidness, lukewarmness
lack of passion, force or animation - cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine
the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom - good-temperedness, good-humoredness, good-humouredness, good-naturedness
a cheerful willingness to be obliging - uncheerfulness
not conducive to cheer or good spirits - gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness
the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness - animation, vivification, invigoration, spiritedness, brio
quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous - chirpiness
cheerful and lively - life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness
animation and energy in action or expression - pertness
quality of being lively and confident - airiness, delicacy
lightness in movement or manner - alacrity, briskness, smartness
liveliness and eagerness - energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim
an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) - vitality, verve
an energetic style - elan
enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness - esprit
liveliness of mind or spirit - breeziness, jauntiness
a breezy liveliness - irrepressibility, buoyancy
irrepressible liveliness and good spirit - high-spiritedness
exuberant liveliness - vivacity
characterized by high spirits and animation - mettlesomeness
courageous high-spiritedness - exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience
overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval - lyricism
unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm - pep, peppiness, ginger
liveliness and energy - inanition
exhaustion resulting from lack of food - activity, activeness
the trait of being active - dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing
the activeness of an energetic personality - inactivity, inactiveness, inertia
a disposition to remain inactive or inert - languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness
inactivity - restfulness
the attribute of being restful - passivity, passiveness
the trait of remaining inactive - apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness
the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally - listlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor
inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy - laziness, indolence
inactivity resulting from a dislike of work - idleness, faineance
the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work - sloth, slothfulness
a disinclination to work or exert yourself - shiftlessness
a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition - perfectionism
a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable - tolerance, permissiveness
a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior - acceptance, toleration, sufferance
a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations - self acceptance
an acceptance of yourself as you are, warts and all - indulgence, lenience, leniency
a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone - softness
a disposition to be lenient in judging others - overtolerance
too much permissiveness - unpermissiveness, restrictiveness
a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits - sternness, strictness
uncompromising resolution - Puritanism
strictness and austerity in conduct and religion - severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
excessive sternness - good nature
a cheerful, obliging disposition - grace, good will, goodwill
a disposition to kindness and compassion - patience, forbearance, longanimity
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence - easygoingness
being without worry or concern - risibility
a disposition to laugh - agreeableness, agreeability
a temperamental disposition to be agreeable - compliance, deference, complaisance, compliancy, obligingness
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others - ill nature
a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition - crabbiness, crabbedness, crossness
a disposition to be ill-tempered - crankiness, crotchetiness, contrariness, grumpiness
a fussy and eccentric disposition - sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness
a sullen moody resentful disposition - temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger - impatience
a dislike of anything that causes delay - intolerance
impatience with annoyances - shrewishness
a nature given to nagging or scolding - querulousness
the quality of being given to complaining - asperity, sharpness
harshness of manner - disagreeableness
an ill-tempered and offensive disposition - bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness
a rough and bitter manner - aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity
a natural disposition to be hostile - bellicosity, bellicoseness
a natural disposition to fight - quarrelsomeness, contentiousness
an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious - truculence, truculency
obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness - litigiousness
a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits - willingness
cheerful compliance - readiness, eagerness, zeal, forwardness
prompt willingness - receptiveness, receptivity, openness
willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) - wholeheartedness
undivided commitment or unreserved enthusiasm - unwillingness, involuntariness
the trait of being unwilling - hesitation, reluctance, hesitancy, disinclination, indisposition
a certain degree of unwillingness - resistance
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness - seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity
the trait of being serious - commitment, committedness
the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose - investment
the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result - sobriety, graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness
a manner that is serious and solemn - sedateness, staidness, solemnity, solemness
a trait of dignified seriousness - stodginess, stuffiness
dull and pompous gravity - frivolity, frivolousness
the trait of being frivolous - giddiness, silliness
an impulsive scatterbrained manner - lightsomeness, lightness
the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous - levity
a manner lacking seriousness - flippancy, light-mindedness
inappropriate levity - jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness
the trait of merry joking - fun, playfulness
a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement - facetiousness
playful humor - pertness, impertinence, perkiness, sauciness, archness
inappropriate playfulness - friskiness, frolicsomeness, sportiveness
lively high-spirited playfulness - mischievousness, impishness, puckishness, whimsicality
the trait of behaving like an imp - humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous - communicativeness
the trait of being communicative - frankness, outspokenness
the trait of being blunt and outspoken - bluffness
good-natured frankness - effusiveness, expansiveness, expansivity
a friendly open trait of a talkative person - fluency, volubility, articulateness
the quality of being facile in speech and writing - garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness
the quality of being wordy and talkative - leresis
rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged) - uncommunicativeness
the trait of being uncommunicative - muteness, silence
a refusal to speak when expected - silence, secrecy, secretiveness
the trait of keeping things secret - mum
secrecy - reserve, reticence, taciturnity
the trait of being uncommunicative - sociality
the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups - sociability, sociableness
the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows - conviviality, joviality
a jovial nature - companionability, companionableness
suitability to be a companion - chumminess, camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship
the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability - gregariousness
the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone - openness, nakedness
characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes) - friendliness
a friendly disposition - affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality
a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) - amicability, amicableness
having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness - condescension, condescendingness
affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank - familiarity, intimacy, closeness
close or warm friendship - approachability, accessibility
the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with - congeniality
a congenial disposition - amity, cordiality
a cordial disposition - neighborliness, neighbourliness, good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness
a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors - hospitableness
having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining - mellowness
geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana - sweetness and light
a mild reasonableness - unsociability, unsociableness
an unsociable disposition - aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness
a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner - unapproachability
a disposition to be unapproachable - secretiveness, closeness
characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) - furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness
a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously