personality type
Psychological classification label
Personality type is a category in systems that classify people by psychological traits, behavioral tendencies, or temperament.
The most familiar is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which assigns four-letter codes like INTJ or ESFP: What's your personality type?
Pop psychology has popularized simpler divisions—Type A versus Type B, introvert versus extrovert.
The concept assumes stable patterns that predict how someone thinks, feels, and acts.
One who turns inward
- extrovertOne who seeks company
- ambivertBoth outgoing and reserved
- Myers-BriggsPersonality type indicator
- MBTIPsychological typing system
ENFP · INFJ · ISTJ · ENTJ · INFP · ENTP · Big Five · neuroticism
Cheerfully optimistic temperament
- phlegmaticUnemotionally calm, slow-reacting
- cholericEasily provoked to anger
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
Hippocrates · Galen · humoral · constitution · natural tendency · intensity · adaptability · sensitivity
Unique personal character
- uniquenessQuality of being singular
- personaAssumed public identity
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
self-concept · self-awareness · selfhood · self-image · distinctiveness · self-expression · true self · identity formation
introvert
One who turns inward
- extrovertOne who seeks company
- ambivertBoth outgoing and reserved
- Myers-BriggsPersonality type indicator
MBTI · ENFP · INFJ · ISTJ · ENTJ · INFP · ENTP · Big Five · neuroticism · openness
sanguine
Cheerfully optimistic temperament
- phlegmaticUnemotionally calm, slow-reacting
- cholericEasily provoked to anger
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
disposition · Hippocrates · Galen · humoral · constitution · natural tendency · intensity · adaptability · sensitivity · persistence
individuality
Unique personal character
- uniquenessQuality of being singular
- personaAssumed public identity
- characterNature, symbol, or role
authenticity · self-concept · self-awareness · selfhood · self-image · distinctiveness · self-expression · true self · identity formation · self-perception
hero
One admired for courage
magician · creator · ruler · jester · lover · caregiver · everyman · innocent · explorer · rebel
- personality typesextrovert, MBTI, introversion, pessimist, extroversion
- identityidentity, self, selfhood, self-expression, self-image
- astrologyastrology, zodiac, horoscope, horoscopes, birth chart
- Career Planningcareer choice, career goals, career aspirations, career satisfaction, career assessment
- classification systemstaxonomy, species, cladogram, dichotomous key, phylum
- identitiesalter ego, gender, persona, sexuality, alias
personality typemood
Prevailing emotional condition
emotional state · feeling · state of mind · humor · whim
personality typecircumstance
Condition affecting an event
situation · environment · context · surroundings · upbringing
type, personal, personality, personally, archetype, types, personable, personify, personalize