Big Five Personality Traits

How many personality traits are there?
How do we even know? In every language, there are many words describing a person’s personality.
In fact, in the English language, more than 15,000 words describing personality have been identified.
When researchers analyzed the terms describing personality characteristics, they realized that there were many words that were pointing to each dimension of personality.
When these words were grouped, five dimensions seemed to emerge that explain a lot of the variation in our personalities.
Keep in mind that these five are not necessarily the only traits out there.
There are other, specific traits that represent dimensions not captured by the Big Five. Still, understanding the main five traits gives us a good start for describing personality.