selfhoods

noun

plural of selfhood
as in identities
the set of qualities that make a person different from other people he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood

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  1. identities
  2. personalities
Noun
  • Protecting identities, networks, software and data remains essential, but what happens if AI makes the wrong decision, is manipulated, exceeds its authority or creates a hazardous physical intervention?
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Exactly how many people were injured, how severely they were harmed and their identities have not been released.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of identities
Noun
  • The story is told from the perspective of infant twins with divergent personalities—Rose is unguardedly buoyant, whereas Marigold is watchful and introspective.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But there is so much more to these characters than their surface personalities.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of personalities
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“Selfhoods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfhoods. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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