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personhoods

personhoods is the plural of personhood.

Meaning of personhood

Noun

personhood (countable and uncountable, plural personhoods)

  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.2008, Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons
  2. The status of being considered as a person.
    • A majority of the present world's peoples delay the conferral of personhood (to children).

Questions about personhoods

What is personhoods the plural of?
Personhoods is the plural of personhood.

Words near personhoods in the dictionary

  1. personed
  2. personed up
  3. personeities
  4. personeity
  5. personhood
  6. personhoods
  7. personhunt
  8. personhunts
  9. personible
  10. personid
  11. personids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personhoods (page history and authors); personhood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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