selfhood

Noun

Meaning

Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

name air character nature agreement identity distinction personality identification correspondence unity self integrity ego temper
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Antonyms

amity care concern charity compassion generosity
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Related terms

selfdom

Examples

Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Martin Heidegger

How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. Cecil Day Lewis

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood. Alasdair MacIntyre

O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness & love: Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life! Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages. William Blake

The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation. Lionel Trilling

Depression is the enemy of each improvement. There can be no constructive building in doubt. There will be no learning under fear. Observation is a step toward justice. Selfhood is betrayal of self-renunciation. Without achievement there is no path. Helena Roerich

Close letter words and terms

selffulness selfgravitating selfheal Selfian selficide selfie