selfhood
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character, identity, individualism, individuality, personality, self-identity
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These include transport conditions, mortality rate, tattooing numbers and the removal of any sign of selfhood, heritage, customs, and cultural identity. — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, "Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist," 15 Aug. 2019 The clownâs final exclamation in the poem reclaims a sought-after selfhood. — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, "âThe Black Clownâ Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem," 24 July 2019 There had never been enough of them to allow this luxury of blatant selfhood. — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, "The First New York Pride March Was an Act of âDesperate Courageâ," 27 June 2019 The movie backs gracefully into notions of identity and selfhood by playing them for ingenious slapstick. — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, "âToy Story 4â is a joy to watch," 19 June 2019 DrndiÄ suggests that the desire for autonomous selfhood can only be driven undergroundâscattered and buried, but never erased. — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, "âDismembered, Relocated, Rearrangedâ," 6 June 2019 But its irony doesnât resonate â certainly not for kids in the Black Lives Matter audience whose cultural illiteracy impairs their sense of history and selfhood. — Armond White, National Review, "Maâs Black-Mammy Stereotypes Capture the Illiberal Spirit," 7 June 2019 Begin to feel into the edges and fences, and notice which feel like important maintenance maneuvers to safeguard a selfhood thatâs for you and you alone, and which have actually become impediments to growth. — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, "Weekly Horoscopes Aug 6-12," 6 Aug. 2012 The show has four central characters â Earn; Alfred; Darius; and Earnâs sometimes ex-girlfriend, Van â who veer in and out of friendship, selfhood, personal clarity and, often, the show itself. — Wesley Morris, New York Times, "âAtlantaâ Skips a Grade," 11 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'selfhood.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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