Synonyms of selfhood

selfhood

noun

ˈself-ˌhu̇d 

as in identity

the set of qualities that make a person different from other people

he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• identity
• personality
• individuality
• individualism
• character
• self-identity
• distinctiveness
• uniqueness
• singularity
• separateness
• oneness
• idiosyncrasy
• peculiarity
• singleness
• nature
• temperament
• independence
• humor
• disposition
• temper

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conformity
• conventionality

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of selfhood

The compassion owed to someone apparently in the cruel grip of an inexorably advancing disease that destroys selfhood should not obscure this fact: Biden’s malady is not robbing the nation of either an impressive political talent or a singularly public-spirited official. —George F. Will, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

The work dealt with selfhood in flux and the many roles Black women occupy, but these themes are not always immediately legible, and that is why the series has been viewed as a breakthrough by critics. —Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024

Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers. —Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024

Can culture and selfhood reshape themselves in the absence of all this beauty? —Megan Mayhew-Bergman, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024