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personhood meaning

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  • Personhood is the status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty.
  • Personhood continues to be a topic of international debate and has been questioned critically during the abolition of human and nonhuman slavery, in theology, in debates about abortion and in fetal rights and/or reproductive rights,
  • Processes through which personhood is recognized socially and legally vary cross-culturally, demonstrating that notions of personhood are not universal.
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  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Suffixes
        • Words by suffix
          • Words suffixed with -hood
          • Suffixes that form nouns from adjectives and nouns
            • Words suffixed with -hood
        • Nouns
          • Countable nouns
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        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of personhood for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "personhood" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
        Definiteness: Level 1
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