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Definition of Personhood
1. Noun. Being a person. "Finding her own personhood as a campus activist"
Definition of Personhood
1. Noun. The state or period of being a person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Personhood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personhood
Literary usage of Personhood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"Chapter Five personhood Virtually every moral issue hinges on the unique metaphysical
standing of persons, since personhood confers on its bearers rights ..."
2. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"I shall refer to these two aspects of things as "substance" and "quality" in this
description of personhood in Chuukese tradition. The qualitative aspect of ..."
3. Self-Neglect Among the Elderly: Maintaining Continuity of Self by Susanna D. Bozinovski (1998)
"This longer sense of personhood is anchored in two types of identity, personal
and social (Hewitt 1989). On the one hand, social identity provides for ..."
4. Emerging Technologies and Ethical Issues in Engineering: Papers from a by National Academy of Engineering, National Academies (U.S.) (2004)
"The site of personhood to the Japanese is in the gut, ... The brain death criteria
violate their cultural model of where personhood resides. ..."
5. Mental Health, United States, 1998 edited by Ronald W Manderscheid, Marilyn J Henderson (1999)
"Well-Being and personhood Outcomes The Well-Being Project (Campbell and Schraiber
1989; Campbell 1992) made a substantial contribution to the development of ..."
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