split personality
noun
1
a
: schizophrenia
—not used technically
b
: multiple personality disorder
—not used technically
2
: a dual nature or character
a city with a split personality
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But that’s the beauty of Kea, the place with two names and a split personality.
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Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
In the comics, Bob Reynolds/Sentry has a split personality and his other persona is that of The Void, a malevolent villain.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Inside is where the Explorer's split personality really starts to show, however.
—Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
By the nineteen-seventies, Lighthizer had left Ashtabula, too, moving from Catholic schools to Georgetown and then to a career as a conservative lawyer, in a party that, in his view, has always had a split personality.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
In the comics, Bob Reynolds/Sentry has a split personality and his other persona is that of The Void, a malevolent villain.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Inside is where the Explorer's split personality really starts to show, however.
—Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
By the nineteen-seventies, Lighthizer had left Ashtabula, too, moving from Catholic schools to Georgetown and then to a career as a conservative lawyer, in a party that, in his view, has always had a split personality.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Split personality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/split%20personality. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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