Interpersonal or intrapersonal?
interpersonal is an adjective meaning “Between two or more people”; intrapersonal is an adjective meaning “Within the mind of an individual person”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) interpersonal is about 52 times as common as intrapersonal.
What is the difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal?
| interpersonal | intrapersonal | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | Between two or more people | Within the mind of an individual person |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words | about once in every 22 million words |
Sources: interpersonal and intrapersonal in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of interpersonal and intrapersonal
interpersonal
- 1
Between two or more people
intrapersonal
- 1
Within the mind of an individual person
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, interpersonal or intrapersonal?
interpersonal appears 2.3 times per million words; intrapersonal about once in every 22 million words.
interpersonal 2.3 times per million wordsintrapersonal about once in every 22 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search interpersonal vs intrapersonal?
“interpersonal vs intrapersonal” is searched about 6,600 times a month on Google and 390 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“intrapersonal vs interpersonal”, “interpersonal or intrapersonal”).
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