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the assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed
by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of beingness would be one’s own name, one’s profession,
one’s physical characteristics, one’s role in a game—each and all of these things could be called one’s beingness.
(NSOL, p. 50)
- the person one should be in order to survive. (SH Spec 19, 6106C23)
- essentially, an identification of self with an object. (COHA, p. 76)
