Examples of selfhood in a Sentence
he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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Be honest and forthright, because your Leo horoscope for August 2025 begins with Leo season strengthening your first house of selfhood, self-perception, and identity.
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Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
This week Brooke and Grant chose to explore silence and its impact on families, on selfhood, and of course on our writing.
—Memoir Nation
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
In contrast, Miller is interested in the body that wears the clothing, and how clothing is a way to define selfhood and the body.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 May 2025
The sense of selfhood existing in mirrorlike closeup, is an inherently cinematic one, not a theatrical one, and Deneuve is the greatest exemplar of this French style.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
This week Brooke and Grant chose to explore silence and its impact on families, on selfhood, and of course on our writing.
—Memoir Nation
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
In contrast, Miller is interested in the body that wears the clothing, and how clothing is a way to define selfhood and the body.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 May 2025
The sense of selfhood existing in mirrorlike closeup, is an inherently cinematic one, not a theatrical one, and Deneuve is the greatest exemplar of this French style.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for selfhood
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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selfhood
noun
self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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