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selfdom

selfdom noun: selfhood.

Noun

selfdom (usually uncountable, plural selfdoms)

  1. (archaic, usually) selfhood.
    • "The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Science Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263

Forms of selfdom

pluralselfdoms

Origin of selfdom

From Middle English selfdom, from Old English selfdōm (“independence”), equivalent to self + -dom.

Questions about selfdom

What does selfdom mean?
Selfdom means selfhood.
What part of speech is selfdom?
Selfdom is a noun.
What is the plural of selfdom?
The plural of selfdom is selfdoms.

Words near selfdom in the dictionary

  1. selfcontrol
  2. selfcontrols
  3. selfdetermined
  4. selfdirection
  5. selfdistributive
  6. selfdom
  7. selfdoms
  8. selfdual
  9. selfduals
  10. selfe
  11. selfed

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