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Answer for the clue "Being a person ", 10 letters:
personhood

Word definitions for personhood in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, from person + -hood .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or period of being a person.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. being a person; "finding her own personhood as a campus activist"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 . According to law, only a natural person or legal ...

Usage examples of personhood.

Chuck scooted off the upholstery and scrambled underneath his seat, where he concentrated on returning to personhood as quickly as he could.

Oh, I know we have a Tri-Galactic Council, and much carrying-on about galactic community and the personhood of all humankind, blah, blah, blah.

Returning man to his rightful place of personhood is the theme of redemption, or reconciliation, or enlightenment, central to all of the great world religions.

Restin was a freedman he had been given a least nominal status of personhood and entered recorded history, no longer living and dying with the anonymity of slaves and other livestock.

That been in a way her own declaration of independence, her bill rights, her affirmation of personhood and of freedom?

Unless Isaah was very careful, the AI might reach personhood before they returned to the LC.

Robert Hughes, a true definition of personhood should transcend the purely physical.

If society moves away from the body-as-person concept, and instead accepts social personhood, it could lead to far-reaching changes, including granting personhood status to uploaded human consciousness and brains maintained outside of bodies, or transplanted into synthetic bodies.

Yet this may mean redefining personhood in ways that will seem radical to many.

This pleased him because it meant there was enough personhood between them to let him truly be her guide.

We may not have to worry about Claire erasing her personhood because the rising darkness will completely overwhelm it.

To be frank, though I love you both for the totality of your personhoods and embrace your unique younesses with the wholehearted, nonjudgmental attitude of our Mother Earth, as far as your business smarts go, neither of you has impressed me worth a dog fart.

To be frank, though I love you both for the totality of your personhoods and embrace your unique younesses with the wholehearted, nonjudgmental attitude of our Mother Earth, as far as your business smarts go, neither of you has impressed me worth a dog fart.

But which was it, this nonsense about foetal personhood or for wearing the skins of these dead chinchillas my God that's all they're good for isn't it?

Of course now he says it was animal rights because her insurance people are suing him for the cost of that lovely chinchilla while this revolting boy is after her for God knows how much in damages for killing his unborn child while they haggle about foetal personhood and the rest of this nonsense where you might make yourself useful, I know she'd be eternally grateful.