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Humanity
//hjuˈmænɪti// noun
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Noun
- 1 Humankind; human beings as a group. uncountable
"Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all."
- 2 all of the living human inhabitants of the earth wordnet
- 3 The human condition or nature. uncountable
- 4 the quality of being human wordnet
- 5 The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects. uncountable
"Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!"
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- 6 the quality of being humane wordnet
- 7 Any academic subject belonging to the humanities. countable
"Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”).
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