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selfhood
[ self-hood ]
selfhood
/ ˈsɛlfhʊd /
noun
- philosophy
- the state of having a distinct identity
- the individuality so possessed
- a person's character
- the quality of being egocentric
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Instead, each American should spend his days cultivating his individualism, his selfhood.
It is this socialized and conscious selfhood which is both the aim and the hope of true democracy.
Helen disappears from the scene, she has contributed her share, her own selfhood, to the experience of the young man.
What Swedenborg calls 'selfhood,' the proprium, is not in him.
I believe, indeed, that this objection to be Superior was a remnant of the selfhood, colored with humility.
But the one universal expression for the entire community is in nationalism, the assertion of selfhood as a people.
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