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he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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These articles and practices align with Self’s idea of collage as representative of selfhood and that humans exist in multiple dimensions.
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Essence, 25 Mar. 2025
Whether explicit or implicit, each vignette is a lesson learned, and those experiences accumulate into new iterations of selfhood as the story progresses.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
What Universal Language seems to suggest is less that Massoud stole Matthew’s selfhood, though, and more that Matthew let that person slip away.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
In came exultations of subjectivity and selfhood—the stuff of life that cannot be boiled down to facts and scientific data.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
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Essence, 25 Mar. 2025
Whether explicit or implicit, each vignette is a lesson learned, and those experiences accumulate into new iterations of selfhood as the story progresses.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
What Universal Language seems to suggest is less that Massoud stole Matthew’s selfhood, though, and more that Matthew let that person slip away.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
In came exultations of subjectivity and selfhood—the stuff of life that cannot be boiled down to facts and scientific data.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for selfhood
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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selfhood
noun
self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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