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HUMANITY
world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
(noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; âall the world loves a loverâ; âshe always used âhumankindâ because âmankindâ seemed to slight the womenâ
humanness, humanity, manhood
(noun) the quality of being human; âhe feared the speedy decline of all manhoodâ
humanity
(noun) the quality of being humane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
humanity (countable and uncountable, plural humanities)
Mankind; human beings as a group.
Synonym: Thesaurus:humankind
The human condition or nature.
The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
Synonym: humaneness
Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
Source: Wiktionary
Hu*man"i*ty, n.; pl. Humanities. Etym: [L. humanitas: cf. F. humanité. See Human.]
1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
2. Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.
3. 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. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." Locke.
4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.
5. pl. (With definite article)
Definition: The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archĂŠology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literĂŠ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literĂŠ divinĂŠ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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