Personhood

//ˈpɝ.sən.hʊd//

Synonyms for "personhood" (3 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related word relations

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Translations

3 translations across 2 languages.

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Greek

2 entries
  • προσωποσύνη noun (the state of being a person)
  • προσωπότητα noun (the state of being a person)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • katauhan noun (the state of being a person)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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Your dogmatic religious idea of fetal personhood is irrelevant to a society where not everyone has the same religion.

Source: tatoeba (11881335)

[Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.

Source: wiktionary

These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]

Source: wiktionary

A majority of the present world's peoples delay the conferral of personhood (to children).

Source: wiktionary

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