'Humanity' definitions:
Definition of 'humanity'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being humane
noun
The quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood" [syn: humanness, humanity, manhood]
noun
All of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]
Definition of 'Humanity'
From: GCIDE
- Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humanities. [L. humanitas: cf. F. humanit['e]. See Human.]
- 1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Mankind collectively; the human race. [1913 Webster]
- But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- It is a debt we owe to humanity. --S. S. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. [1913 Webster]
- Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'humanity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- Adam,
- affectionateness,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benignancy,
- benignity,
- brotherhood,
- charitableness,
- clay,
- clemency,
- clementness,
- commiseration,
- community,
- compassion,
- condolence,
- consideration,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- fallen humanity,
- favor,
- feeling,
- feeling of kinship,
- fellow feeling,
- flesh,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forgiveness,
- frailty,
- fraternal feeling,
- generation of man,
- generosity,
- gentleness,
- genus Homo,
- goodness,
- goodness of heart,
- grace,
- graciousness,
- heart of gold,
- helpfulness,
- hominid,
- Hominidae,
- homo,
- Homo sapiens,
- human equation,
- human family,
- human frailty,
- human nature,
- human race,
- human species,
- human weakness,
- humaneness,
- humankind,
- humanness,
- kindheartedness,
- kindliness,
- kindly disposition,
- kindness,
- laxness,
- le genre humain,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenientness,
- lenity,
- loving kindness,
- magnanimity,
- man,
- mankind,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mildness,
- mitigation,
- moderateness,
- mortal flesh,
- mortality,
- mortals,
- niceness,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- patience,
- people,
- pity,
- quarter,
- race of man,
- relief,
- reprieve,
- ruth,
- self-pity,
- sensitivity,
- society,
- softheartedness,
- softness,
- soul of kindness,
- sympathy,
- tenderheartedness,
- tenderness,
- the masses,
- the public,
- tolerance,
- understanding,
- unselfishness,
- warmheartedness,
- warmth,
- warmth of heart,
- weakness
Words containing 'Humanity'
- Human,
- Humanate,
- Humane,
- Humanely,
- Humaneness,
- Humanics,
- Humanism,
- Humanities,
- 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