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Definition of 'personhood'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) personhood
being a person
"finding her own personhood as a campus activist"

Definition of 'personhood'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. personhood
The state or condition of being a human individual accorded moral and/or legal rights. Criteria to be used to determine this status are subject to debate, and range from the requirement of simply being a human organism to such requirements as that the individual be self-aware and capable of rational thought and moral agency.

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