Examples of selfhood in a Sentence
he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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Lasting lessons As these women’s struggles show, passing was an ongoing negotiation of selfhood under extreme, and often violent, duress.
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Hana Green, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
She is perched on the livewire between the raw and the cooked, ready to delve into love, selfhood, and loneliness with timing and turns that keep you on board.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Aziza expands her focus beyond Emmeline Cline’s Dead Weight — another essential book about eating disorders — to create a complicated portrait of selfhood, illness, family history, and political violence.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Hana Green, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
She is perched on the livewire between the raw and the cooked, ready to delve into love, selfhood, and loneliness with timing and turns that keep you on board.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Aziza expands her focus beyond Emmeline Cline’s Dead Weight — another essential book about eating disorders — to create a complicated portrait of selfhood, illness, family history, and political violence.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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selfhood
noun
self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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