A person (plural people or persons) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.
In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes.
The plural form people, is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in a people), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of person. The plural form persons is often used in philosophical and legal writing.
Personal identity is the unique identity of persons through time. That is to say, the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the same person, persisting through time. In the modern philosophy of mind, this concept of personal identity is sometimes referred to as the diachronic problem of personal identity. The synchronic problem is grounded in the question of what features or traits characterize a given person at one time.
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One Word Substitution | Person | Mantrakshar |
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One who is not sure about God’s existence | Agnostic | |
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building | Arsonist | |
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession | Amateur | |
One who can use either hand with ease | Ambidextrous | |
One who makes an official examination of accounts | Auditor | |
A person who believes in or tries to bring about a state of lawlessness | Anarchist | |
A person who has changed his faith | Apostate | |
One who does not believe in the existence of God | Atheist | |
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute | Arbitrator | |
One who leads an austere life | Ascetic | |
An unconventional style of living | Bohemian | |
One who is bad in spellings | Cacographer | |
One who feeds on human flesh | Cannibal | |
A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism | Chauvinist | |
A critical judge of any art and craft | Connoisseur | |
Persons living at the same time | Contemporaries | |
One who is recovering health after illness | Convalescent | |
A girl/woman who flirts with a man | Coquette | |
A person who regards the whole world as his country | Cosmopolitan | |
One who is a centre of attraction | Cynosure | |
One who sneers at the beliefs of others | Cynic | |
A leader or orator who espouses the cause of the common people | Demagogue | |
A person having a sophisticated charm | Debonair | |
A leader who sways his followers by his oratory | Demagogue | |
A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature | Dilettante | |
One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking | Epicure | |
One who often talks of his achievements | Egotist | |
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Emigrant | |
A man who is womanish in his habits | Effeminate | |
One who is hard to please (very selective in his habits) | Fastidious | |
One who runs away from justice | Fugitive | |
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters | Fanatic | |
One who believes in fate | Fatalist | |
A lover of good food | Gourmand | |
Conferred as an honour | Honorary | |
A person who acts against religion | Heretic | |
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes | Highbrow | |
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments | Hypochondriac | |
A person who is controlled by wife | Henpeck | |
One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Indefatigable | |
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | Iconoclast | |
One who does not express himself freely | Introvert | |
Who behaves without moral principles | Immoral | |
A person who is incapable of being tampered with | Impregnable | |
One who is unable to pay his debts | Insolvent | |
A person who is mentally ill | Lunatic | |
A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society | Misanthrope | |
A person who is primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics | Mercenary | |
Someone in love with himself | Narcissist | |
One who collect coins as hobby | Numismatist | |
A person who likes or admires women | Philogynist | |
A lover of mankind | Philanthropist | |
A person who speaks more than one language | Polyglot | |
One who lives in solitude | Recluse | |
Someone who walks in sleep | Somnambulist | |
A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life | Stoic | |
A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Termagant | |
A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife | Uxorious | |
One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field | Virtuoso |