Associations to the word «Personhood»

Wiktionary

PERSONHOOD, noun. The state or period of being a person.
PERSONHOOD, noun. The status of being considered as a person.

Dictionary definition

PERSONHOOD, noun. Being a person; "finding her own personhood as a campus activist".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky