personhood
/ˈpɝ.sən.hʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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 […]"
- "A majority of the present world's peoples delay the conferral of personhood (to children)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English personhood From person + -hood.