Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20170517013010/@comment-25936766-20170608025736

RayStrikeAbius wrote: I saw "Persona", and I got excited thinking this was something totally different from what it is... What did you think it was? Persona can mean a variety of things.

In a general sense, it refers to playing as a character, being an actor. Assuming an identity and playing it out.

In Psychology, at least Jungian Psychology, it refers to a fabricated mask used for public interactions. Your "social face", the one you show to the world, so that they don't see your true self.

More informally, it's a synonym of Identity.

And more literally, it's Latin and Spanish for Person.