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Definition: SELFHOOD |
SELFHOODNoun1. Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. |
Date "SELFHOOD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SELFHOOD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SELFHOOD" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
selfhood | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SELFHOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فردية, أنانية (egoism, egotism, self interest, selfishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sobectví (egoism, egotism, possessiveness, selfishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | selv (even, herself, himself, itself, proprium, self, the ego, the selfhood), proprium (proprium, the ego, the selfhood), ego (proprium, the ego, the selfhood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | individualité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Proprium (proprium, the ego, the selfhood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עצמיות (character, own, personality, self), עצמות (essence, quality, substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | személyiség (character, individual, personage, personality), egyéniség (individuality, personality, presence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elfhoodsay pessoa (being, customer, head, individual, man, person, persona, poll, subject, Wight), interesse pessoal (personal property, self interest), indivíduo (anybody, beggar, bloke, busybody, chap, civy, customer, fellow, head, housebroken, individual, joker, joss house, ladder, Lade, laze, man, poll, specimen, subject). (various references) личность (bod 1, character, identity, individual, person, personality). (various references) individualidad (individuality), egoísmo (egoism, self, self interest, selfishness, self-love, self-seeking). (various references) kişi özelliği. (various references) індивідуальність (egoity, identity, individuality, personality), особистісь, егоїзм (egoism, selfishness). (various references) tính chất cá nhân (selfness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SELFHOOD": selfhoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SELFHOOD" (pronounced 'Self"hood'): Boyhood, Pagehood, Priesthood, Princehood, Queenhood, Squirehood, Statehood, Youthhood. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-l-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: shooled. | |
-2 letters: dholes, floods, fooled, hoofed, loosed, oodles, shooed, soloed. | |
-3 letters: delfs, dhole, doles, feods, flesh, floes, flood, folds, foods, fools, helos, holds, holed, holes, hoods, hoofs, hosed, hosel, lodes, looed, loofs, loose, oleos, oohed, shelf, sheol, shoed, shool, soldo, soled. | |
-4 letters: delf, dels, does, dole, dols, dose, edhs, elds, feds, fehs, feod, fled. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-h-l-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: falsehood, selfhoods. | |
+2 letters: falsehoods. | |
+4 letters: foolhardiest. | |
+5 letters: foolhardiness, officeholders. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 4C 46 48 4F 4F 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .-.. ..-. .... --- --- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 01001000 01001111 01001111 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E L F H O O D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 004C 0046 0048 004F 004F 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5339464042494938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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