Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of having a distinct identity; individuality.
- noun The fully developed self; an achieved personality.
- noun Self-centeredness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mode of being of an individual person; independent existence; personality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun philosophy, psychology State of having a distinct
identity , or being anindividual distinct from others;individuality . - noun The fully developed
self ; one'spersonality ,character . - noun The quality of being
self-centered oregocentric ;selfishness .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The passage of our self is through its selfhood, which is independent, to its attainment of soul, which is harmonious.
Sadhana : the realisation of life Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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Such a misapprehension is perhaps especially acute when the character in question is presumed to be more or less autobiographical, but even characters not immediately associated with the writer him/herself are, if Zadie Smith is to be believed, mostly an opportunity for the author to indulge in "the attempted revelation of [an] elusive, multifaceted self" -- that is, his or her own "selfhood," the "development" of which is central to the act of writing.
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One might usefully view the emergence of psychology itself as torn between a science of mental control and objectification, and a utopian attempt to preserve an idealised model of selfhood which is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve or extend through the broadening political population, but which can be installed within the individual at an abstract or theoretical level.
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For everyone other than the schizophrenic, signs and desires have meaning only as they function within a social or cultural system and only as one is able to assimilate one's interior "selfhood" with that system.
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Like one giant assembly line of "selfhood," our media and culture churn out icons at a steady pace, each one mirroring a common need to be recognized, respected, understood, successful and loved.
Alison Rose Levy: The Dalai Lama Does Not Exist and Neither Do I 2010
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What is peculiar about what is referred to as ethnicity among both is that neither is an assertive identity of "selfhood".
CONTENTS 2007
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What is peculiar about what is referred to as ethnicity among both is that neither is an assertive identity of "selfhood".
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What is peculiar about what is referred to as ethnicity among both is that neither is an assertive identity of "selfhood".
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What is peculiar about both is that neither is an assertive identity of "selfhood".
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The awareness of this kind of selfhood, this personal self, is like looking at one's reflection in the mirror and saying, "Ah, I have on a becoming attire," or "my face looks sickly to-day."
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