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Being vs Personhood - What's the difference?

being | personhood |

As nouns the difference between being and personhood

is that being is a living creature while personhood is the state or period of being a person.

As a verb being

is present participle of lang=en.

As a conjunction being

is given that; since.

being

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A living creature.
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being .
  • (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  • (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  • (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
    • (Wright)
  • * Steele
    • It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

    Derived terms

    * beingdom * beingful * beinghood * beingless * beingness * (noun ) human being

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) Given that; since.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
    • ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

    Derived terms

    * being that

    References

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    See also

    * am * are * is * art * be * been * beest * was * wast * were * wert

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    personhood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • * 2014 , Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things (page 101)
    • These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves