Definitions

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  • adjective Existing or occurring within the individual self or mind.

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  • adjective Within the mind of an individual person

Etymologies

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intra- +‎ personal

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Examples

  • This experience is meant to provide what the Residential Advisers, also known as “RAs” and the “you are allowed to drink but you are not allowed to drink” figures of almost authority, refer to as “practice in intrapersonal and communication skills” and “a growing experience.”

    Stressed-Out Frosh On Brink Of Mental Breakdown Encouraged To Live With Complete Strangers Of Questionable Habits Kait Mauro 2010

  • But it's the second thing we're concerned about today, an aspect called "intrapersonal".

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • After all, the best way for new, stressed out Bears to learn the intrapersonal skills they clearly missed while they were being star high school students — running clubs, winning state championships in team sports and producing all kinds of musical and theatrical productions with hordes of other young people — is to match them up with someone they are guaranteed to get ample “conflict management” practice with.

    Stressed-Out Frosh On Brink Of Mental Breakdown Encouraged To Live With Complete Strangers Of Questionable Habits Kait Mauro 2010

  • He argued that there are not one but seven kinds of intelligence logico-mathematical, spatial, verbal, musical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal and that there are a range of ways to express intelligence.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • He argued that there are not one but seven kinds of intelligence logico-mathematical, spatial, verbal, musical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal and that there are a range of ways to express intelligence.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • From what I recall of Gardner's model, it is a circular diagram, like a pye chart, equally divided into various intelligences such as mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, kinaesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence and so. on.

    Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • American psychologist Howard Gardner thinks intelligence has eight aspects: logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal and interpersonal

    Vitro Nasu » 2009 » February 2009

  • Or in the words of another 'religion', about we should be wary of generalising, or we may end up sounding as stupid and silly as those right wing intrapersonal dummies,

    Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • American psychologist Howard Gardner thinks intelligence has eight aspects: logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal and interpersonal

    Not You Babe! 2009

  • Howard Gardner has said, “Many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100 if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one.”

    Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010

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