Examples of selfhood in a Sentence
he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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And that’s exactly what Self of Selves offers: an unguarded layering of thought, process, and selfhood.
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Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Apr. 2025
These articles and practices align with Self’s idea of collage as representative of selfhood and that humans exist in multiple dimensions.
—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
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Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Apr. 2025
These articles and practices align with Self’s idea of collage as representative of selfhood and that humans exist in multiple dimensions.
—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
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 30 Apr. 2025.
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selfhood
noun
self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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