diff --git a/api-generator/components/picklist.js b/api-generator/components/picklist.js
index f79483820..ab2eca722 100644
--- a/api-generator/components/picklist.js
+++ b/api-generator/components/picklist.js
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ const PickListProps = [
         default: "null",
         description: "Selected items in the list as a multidimensional array."
     },
+    {
+        name: "selectionMode",
+        type: "string",
+        default: "null",
+        description: 'Defines selection mode, options are "single" and "multiple".'
+    },
     {
         name: "metaKeySelection",
         type: "boolean",
diff --git a/src/components/picklist/PickList.d.ts b/src/components/picklist/PickList.d.ts
index b2051e152..ccfd8269e 100755
--- a/src/components/picklist/PickList.d.ts
+++ b/src/components/picklist/PickList.d.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { VNode } from 'vue';
 interface PickListProps {
     modelValue?: any[][];
     selection?: any[][];
+    selectionMode?: string;
     dataKey?: string;
     metaKeySelection?: boolean;
     listStyle?: any;
diff --git a/src/components/picklist/PickList.vue b/src/components/picklist/PickList.vue
index 83846c235..71ea9540e 100755
--- a/src/components/picklist/PickList.vue
+++ b/src/components/picklist/PickList.vue
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ export default {
             type: Array,
             default: () => [[],[]]
         },
+        selectionMode: {
+            type: String,
+            default: null
+        },
         dataKey: {
             type: String,
             default: null
@@ -381,18 +385,19 @@ export default {
                     _selection = selectionList.filter((val, index) => index !== selectedIndex);
                 }
                 else {
-                    _selection = (metaKey) ? selectionList ? [...selectionList] : [] : [];
+                    if (metaKey) {
+                        _selection = this.isMultipleSelectionMode() ? selectionList ? [...selectionList] : [] : [];
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        _selection = [];
+                    }
+
                     _selection.push(item);
                 }
             }
             else {
-                if (selected) {
-                    _selection = selectionList.filter((val, index) => index !== selectedIndex);
-                }
-                else {
-                    _selection = selectionList ? [...selectionList] : [];
-                    _selection.push(item);
-                }
+                _selection = this.isMultipleSelectionMode() ? selectionList ? [...selectionList] : [] : [];
+                _selection.push(item);
             }
 
             let newSelection = [...this.d_selection];
@@ -543,6 +548,12 @@ export default {
                 document.head.removeChild(this.styleElement);
                 this.styleElement = null;
             }
+        },
+        isSingleSelectionMode() {
+            return this.selectionMode === 'single';
+        },
+        isMultipleSelectionMode() {
+            return this.selectionMode === 'multiple';
         }
     },
     computed: {
diff --git a/src/views/picklist/PickListDoc.vue b/src/views/picklist/PickListDoc.vue
index 8182a307b..9e475bb79 100755
--- a/src/views/picklist/PickListDoc.vue
+++ b/src/views/picklist/PickListDoc.vue
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ import PickList from 'primevue/picklist';
                         <td>null</td>
                         <td>Selected items in the list as a multidimensional array.</td>
                     </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>selectionMode</td>
+                        <td>string</td>
+                        <td>null</td>
+                        <td>Defines selection mode, options are "single" and "multiple".</td>
+                    </tr>
                     <tr>
                         <td>metaKeySelection</td>
                         <td>boolean</td>