PERSONALITY TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personality test mean? 

• PERSONALITY TEST (noun)
  The noun PERSONALITY TEST has 1 sense:

1. any test that is intended to assess personality

  Familiarity information: PERSONALITY TEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONALITY TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any test that is intended to assess personality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("personality test" is a kind of...):

mental test; mental testing; psychometric test; test (any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personality test"):

projective device; projective technique; projective test (any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations)

personality assessment; personality inventory (a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits)