'Humanism' definitions:
Definition of 'humanism'
(from WordNet)
noun
The doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare [syn: humanitarianism, humanism]
noun
The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self- realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural [syn: humanism, secular humanism]
noun
The cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies
Definition of 'Humanism'
From: GCIDE
- Humanism \Hu"man*ism\ (h[=u]"man*[i^]z'm), n.
- 1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. [1913 Webster]
- [She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. --T. Hardy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'humanism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anthroposophy,
- bibliolatry,
- bibliomania,
- bluestockingism,
- book learning,
- book madness,
- bookiness,
- bookishness,
- booklore,
- Christian humanism,
- classical scholarship,
- classicism,
- culture,
- donnishness,
- eruditeness,
- erudition,
- free thought,
- freethinking,
- humanistic scholarship,
- integral humanism,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- latitudinarianism,
- learnedness,
- letters,
- literacy,
- naturalistic humanism,
- new humanism,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- reading,
- Religious Humanism,
- scholarship,
- secular humanism
Words containing 'Humanism'
- Human,
- Humanate,
- Humane,
- Humanely,
- Humaneness,
- Humanics,
- Humanities,
- Humanity,
- Humanization,
- Humanize,
- Humanized,
- Humanizer,
- Humanizing,
- Humanly,
- Humanness,
- human being,
- humans,
- Human fish,
- Religion of humanity,
- doctor of humanities,
- human action,
- human activity,
- human beings,
- human body,
- human botfly,
- human death,
- human dynamo,
- human ecology,
- human elbow,
- human face,
- human factor,
- human foot,
- human head,
- human interest,
- human knee,
- human nature,
- human palaeontology,
- human paleontology,
- human process,
- human race,
- human relationship,
- human right,
- human waste,
- secular humanism,
- commission on human rights,
- doctor of humane letters,
- health and human services,
- human chorionic gonadotrophin,
- human chorionic gonadotropin,
- human gamma globulin,
- human genome project,
- human growth hormone,
- human immunodeficiency virus,
- human language technology,
- human papilloma virus,
- human remains pouch,
- human reproductive cloning,
- human vs nonhuman,
- human-centered,
- human-centred,
- human-sized,
- recombinant human insulin,
- segway human transporter,
- department of health and human services,
- secretary of health and human services,
- human t-cell leukemia virus-1