selfhood
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈsɛlfhʊd/
:
identidad
- For Hawthorne, the movement from estrangement and isolation to a selfhood sanctioned by reciprocal relations with others was liberating and enlivening.
- sense of selfhood
- realization of true selfhood
- true selfhood
Ultimately, your personality, your personal selfhood is an illusion.
- Ultimately, your personality, your personal selfhood is an illusion.
- And there's this kind of subject object perception, and that is the default starting point of selfhood, of subjectivity.
- So if you ascribe to human beings a totally separate selfhood, then suffering looks just the most dreadful thing ever
- And you can think the idea is that our experience of embodied selfhood is the brain's best guess of the causes of all these signals put together.
- I'm not my my own selfhood kind of evaporates.
- But it's still just an outer form and it it lacks selfhood.
- It holds its objectivity to be in principle, the same essence as itself or it's selfhood.
- That is a very great gift, the gift of selfhood, for we have only what we know we must lose what we are willing to lose.
- So this ability to to sort of disconnect your selfhood and in hypnosis, it's a rapid suspension of your usual selfhood.
Examples
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Because you're just doing one thing after another and there's no moment for the core of your selfhood to be examined.
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The search for selfhood is also the central theme of City of Night (1963) by John Rechy.
Academic text (1990) -
Ultimately, your personality, your personal selfhood is an illusion.
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The novel focuses on developing selfhood, not on the whole life, and projects an accommodation to society.
Academic text (1992) -
That is a very great gift, the gift of selfhood, for we have only what we know we must lose what we are willing to lose.
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Such an acceptance of self means accepting and even loving the prison of selfhood.
Academic text (1993) -
So there are all these different dimensions of selfhood that are bound together for most of us, most of the time in a seamless whole.
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Contemporary conditions are therefore not conducive to the communitarian goal of a secure sense of selfhood.
Academic text (1991) -
Modernist art has been allied with a modern sense of self—with individuality, selfhood, and self-generated psychic identity.
Academic text (1994) -
Developing a strong sense of selfhood is essential for personal growth and understanding one’s identity.
Synonyms
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3.9
A person's idea of who they are
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3.2
The qualities that show who a person or group is
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7.9
Being an individual with identity and legal rights
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4.2
The set of things that make a person different and stay the same over time
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8.2
A quality of being a unique person with your own identity
Antonyms
How Individual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word selfhood comes from self meaning 'one's own person' and the ending -hood meaning 'state' or 'condition', the same ending you see in childhood. So, selfhood is the state of being yourself and explains your sense of who you are.