selfhood

Example Sentences

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In Mr. Persico’s account, the Protestant Reformation completed the project that Genesis began, entrenching individual autonomy and selfhood in Western culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Through her art and writing, she explores and dissects mental health, selfhood and relationships.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

In the face of so much frenzied curation and compulsory personal branding, how might a modern human maintain some iota of unshared selfhood, a soupçon of Greta Garbo mystique?

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024

And if she did slip in that fraught moment, the whole edifice of her selfhood, her life’s grand project, might well collapse.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

We catch this young girl at the dawn of her selfhood.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan