personalia

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noun

All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.

OriginLatin persōnālia →
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Meanings

nounpersonalia pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyAll the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.

    Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan.

    1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96
  2. pluralplural onlymediaAnnouncements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association.

Origin

  1. Latinpersōnālia
  2. Latinpersōnālia
  3. Englishpersonalia

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

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APA

personalia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personalia

MLA

“personalia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personalia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “personalia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personalia.

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