Usually means: Essence of self; individual identity.
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▸ noun:  (philosophy) selfhood; individual identity

Similar:
oikeiosis, illeity, I-hood, individuation, self-recognition, empirical ego, being-in-itself, identism, selfhood, ousia, more...

Opposite:
alterity, otherness, distinctiveness

Adjectives:
divine, own, essential, original, very

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Similar:
oikeiosis, illeity, I-hood, individuation, self-recognition, empirical ego, being-in-itself, identism, selfhood, ousia, more...

Opposite:
alterity, otherness, distinctiveness

Adjectives:
divine, own, essential, original, very



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