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personhood

noun
/ˈpɝ.sən.hʊd/

Etymology

From person + -hood.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. suffixed as personhood — “person + hood”

Definitions

  1. The state or period of being a person.

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

  2. The status of being considered as a person.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for personhood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA