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explosive personality [iksplō′siv] Etymology: L, ex, out, plaudere, to clap behavior characterized by episodes of uncontrolled rage and physical abusiveness in reaction to relatively minor stressors. explosive personality Psychology A popular term for a personality trait characteized by abrupt 'detonations' of negative emotive forces–anger, snarling, snapping and/or violence, in response to seemingly mild external
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an explosive personality, especially i fit can be linked to serious psychic illness, superficiality, simple naivete, light mindedness, lack of common sense, and incompatibility. But those numbers were blurred by an explosive personality. Mueller's writing in the column and elsewhere had an edgy unkemptness that radiated the mellow afterburn of a once explosive personality. |
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