Persona

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Persona \Per*so"na\, n.; pl. {Person[ae]}. [L.] (Biol.)
     Same as {Person}, n., 8.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  persona
       n 1: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the
            part of Desdemona" [syn: {character}, {role}, {theatrical
            role}, {part}]
       2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to
          the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
          [syn: {image}]
       [also: {personae} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "persona":
     an existence, anima, article, being, body, character, coconscious,
     collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, creature,
     critter, death instinct, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict,
     entelechy, entity, ethical self, exterior, facade, face,
     foreconscious, front, guise, id, identity, individual, integer,
     item, libidinal energy, libido, life, mask, mind, module, monad,
     motive force, object, organism, part, person, personality,
     pleasure principle, point, preconscious, primitive self, psyche,
     psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, role, self, single,
     singleton, something, soul, subconscious, subconscious mind,
     subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, thing,
     unconscious, unconscious mind, unit, vital impulse