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selfhood

/self-hood/US // ˈsɛlf hʊd //UK // (ˈsɛlfhʊd) //

自我身份,自身身份,自我的身份,自身的身份

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being an individual person; individuality.
    • : one's personality.
    • : selfishness.

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Examples

  • Instead, each American should spend his days cultivating his individualism, his selfhood.

  • It is this socialized and conscious selfhood which is both the aim and the hope of true democracy.

  • Helen disappears from the scene, she has contributed her share, her own selfhood, to the experience of the young man.

  • What Swedenborg calls 'selfhood,' the proprium, is not in him.

  • I believe, indeed, that this objection to be Superior was a remnant of the selfhood, colored with humility.

  • But the one universal expression for the entire community is in nationalism, the assertion of selfhood as a people.