Meaning of humanity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Humankind; human beings as a group.
   uncountable
2. The human condition or nature.
   uncountable
3. The human race:earth, flesh, Homo sapiens, humankind, man, mankind, universe, world.
4. The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
   uncountable
5. humanidad.
6. Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
   countable
7. Humans considered as a group; the human race.
8. The condition or quality of being human.
9. The quality of being humane; benevolence.
10. A humane characteristic, attribute, or act.
11. humanitiesa. The languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome; the classics.
12. the human race
13. the quality of being human
14. kindness or mercy

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Examples

“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.”

“At last the concourse is relatively clear of humanity and the task of clearing up can begin.”

“It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].”

““The internet”, Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Google, famously observed, “is the first thing that humanity' has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.””

“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!”

“Killing Animals Humanely. Humanity requires that animals be killed in the quickest and least painful manner. The following circular has been sent by our American Humane Education Society very widely through the country.”

“Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science.”

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