SELFHOOD Synonyms

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

• a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

• the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

• an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

• a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)

• good repute

• a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

• a written symbol that is used to represent speech

• (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes

• engrave or inscribe characters on

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

• the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

• the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known

• an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

• exact sameness

• the quality of being individual

• the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

• a particular type of thing

• the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual

• a person of considerable prominence

• being a person

• (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self

• your consciousness of your own identity

• a person considered as a unique individual