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What does selfhood mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word selfhood? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) State of having a distinct identity, or being an individual distinct from others; individuality.
  2. The fully developed self; one's personality, character.
  3. The quality of being self-centered or egocentric; selfishness.
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The traditionalists are at a huge disadvantage in either defining or re-defining any sense of selfhood in a cultural environment of differences.
Moreover, a polyphonic style resists univocal concepts of selfhood, which posit the self as knowable and unified.
The book's exultation of romantic selfhood and all-consuming passion was another source of worry for Victorian critics.
The narrative view of selfhood has, a further purpose to connect ipseity with alterity.
The game, then, is the stage of the social process at which the individual attains selfhood.
It's about traumatic brain injury and the total decimation of self and selfhood.

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