Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: parapsychology, pseudoscience
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From prosopo- (“person, mask”) + -poiesis; introduced by French psychical researcher René Sudre, whose book "Parapsychology" (1926) was published in English by Grove Press in 1962. Possibly influenced by προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, prosopopoeia”).
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
