as in identity
the set of qualities that make a person different from other people
he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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Recent Examples of selfhood
In came exultations of subjectivity and selfhood—the stuff of life that cannot be boiled down to facts and scientific data.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Each distinct persona carves out a portion of his selfhood.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Mark’s dilemma frames a superlative new season that probes the nature of selfhood, death, and most of all love.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
Russell creates work spans art, gender, race, and technology, with a focus on the intersections of cyberculture and digital selfhood.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Each distinct persona carves out a portion of his selfhood.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Mark’s dilemma frames a superlative new season that probes the nature of selfhood, death, and most of all love.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
Russell creates work spans art, gender, race, and technology, with a focus on the intersections of cyberculture and digital selfhood.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for selfhood
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Harvard must immediately reform its student discipline policies and procedures so as to swiftly and transparently enforce its existing disciplinary policies with consistency and impartiality, and without double standards based on identity or ideology.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Such a war would be motivated, in China, by a politics of identity that is largely impervious to economic rationality and other strategic considerations.—
RANA MITTER,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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López Obrador dealt with this mainly through force of personality.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Dunn is one of the best point-of-attack defending guards in the NBA, and his quickness, long arms and surly personality on the floor gave Murray issues.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfhood. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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