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MMPI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does MMPI mean?
• MMPI (noun)
The noun MMPI has 1 sense:
1. a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items
Familiarity information: MMPI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI
Hypernyms ("MMPI" is a kind of...):
self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)
Context examples
It belongs to the family of drugs called matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors (MMPIs).
(BMS-275291, NCI Dictionary)
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