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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

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Recent Examples of selfhood Each distinct persona carves out a portion of his selfhood. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025 Mark’s dilemma frames a superlative new season that probes the nature of selfhood, death, and most of all love. Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025 Russell creates work spans art, gender, race, and technology, with a focus on the intersections of cyberculture and digital selfhood. Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024 The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for selfhood

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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfhood. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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