| personal | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. personal | a short newspaper article about a particular person or group. |
| ~ news article, news story, newspaper article | an article reporting news. |
| adj. | 2. personal | concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality.; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" |
| ~ ad hominem | appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason).; "ad hominem arguments" |
| ~ face-to-face | in each other's presence.; "a face-to-face encounter" |
| ~ private, individual | concerning one person exclusively.; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" |
| ~ individualised, individualized, personalised, personalized | made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual.; "personalized luggage"; "personalized advice" |
| ~ in-person, in the flesh | an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence.; "he carried out the negotiations in person"; "a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh" |
| ~ ain, own | belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive.; "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" |
| ~ personalized | pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively.; "unnecessarily personalized remarks" |
| ~ person-to-person | involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties.; "a person-to-person interview"; "person-to-person telephone calls" |
| ~ private | concerning things deeply private and personal.; "private correspondence"; "private family matters" |
| ~ private | confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy.; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life" |
| adj. | 3. personal | particular to a given individual. |
| ~ subjective | taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias.; "a subjective judgment" |
| adj. (pertain) | 4. personal | of or arising from personality.; "personal magnetism" |
| adj. | 5. personal | intimately concerning a person's body or physical being.; "personal hygiene" |
| ~ physical | involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit.; "physical exercise"; "physical suffering"; "was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance" |
| adj. (pertain) | 6. personal | indicating grammatical person.; "personal verb endings" |
| voluntary | | |
| n. (person) | 1. military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer | (military) a person who freely enlists for service. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ military man, serviceman, man, military personnel | someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force.; "two men stood sentry duty" |
| n. (communication) | 2. voluntary | composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance. |
| ~ solo | a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment). |
| ~ postlude | a voluntary played at the end of a religious service. |
| adj. | 3. voluntary | of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled.; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession" |
| ~ conscious | knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts.; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" |
| ~ intended | resulting from one's intentions.; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult" |
| ~ wilful, willful | done by design.; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience" |
| ~ freewill | done of your own accord.; "a freewill offering" |
| ~ self-imposed | voluntarily assumed or endured.; "self-imposed exile" |
| ~ uncoerced, unforced, willing | not brought about by coercion or force.; "the confession was uncoerced" |
| ~ volunteer, unpaid | without payment.; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department" |
| ~ willing | disposed or inclined toward.; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers" |
| adj. | 4. voluntary | controlled by individual volition.; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" |
| ~ physiology | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. |
| prevalence | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. prevalence | the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread.; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future" |
| ~ generality | the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability. |
| ~ currency | general acceptance or use.; "the currency of ideas" |
| n. (linkdef) | 2. prevalence | (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population. |
| ~ epidemiology | the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease. |
| ~ ratio | the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient). |
| n. (attribute) | 3. preponderance, prevalence | a superiority in numbers or amount.; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant" |
| ~ number, figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals.; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" |
| self | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. ego, self | your consciousness of your own identity. |
| ~ consciousness | an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation.; "he lost consciousness" |
| ~ anima | (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious. |
| n. (person) | 2. self | a person considered as a unique individual.; "one's own self" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ number one | a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first. |
| adj. (pertain) | 3. self | (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self.; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced" |
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