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Meaning of 'humanity' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Humanity [ n.]
- The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
- Mankind collectively; the human race.
- The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
- Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
- The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

Meaning of 'humanity' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . humanity [ n]
Meaning (1):
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Example in sentence:
  • all the world loves a lover;
  • she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
Meaning (2):
- the quality of being human
Example in sentence:
  • he feared the speedy decline of all manhood

Nearby Words:

hum human humanate humane humanics humanify humanism humanist humanistic humanitarian

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