personhoodn.
/ˈpəːsnhʊd/, U.S. /ˈpərsənˌ(h)ʊd/ The quality or condition of being a person; esp. personal identity, selfhood.
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the world > people > person > [noun] > quality of being
personalitya1425
personagea1530
manlikeness1742
personhood1944
1944 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 50 162 The purpose of education is the development of personhood.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Apr. 197/3 From there he proceeds to the machine-like properties of animals and so on up to responsible human personhood.
1993 Independent on Sunday 22 Aug. 21/7 Don't they understand that I'm not just ‘gay’, I'm a person too, that my personhood is more important than my gayness?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1944- to forgive to wife
- to fork a person
- to fork out, over, or up
- to fork the fingers
- to form a government
- to form castles in the air
- to form on
- to form the siege
- to form to oneself
- to formalize upon
- to formerly alsoat arms!
- to forsake patch
- to forswear the land
- to fortify oneself
- to fortune off or out
- to foster on
- to foster out
- to foul off
- to foul one's own nest
- to foul out
- to foul up
- to found to
- to fox-hunt it
- to foxhunt it
- to frame and rear