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Definition of Humanity
1. Noun. The quality of being humane.
2. Noun. The quality of being human. "He feared the speedy decline of all manhood"
Generic synonyms: Quality
Attributes: Human, Nonhuman
Derivative terms: Human, Human, Human, Human, Human
3. Noun. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. "She always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
Generic synonyms: Group, Grouping, Homo, Human, Human Being, Man
Member holonyms: People
Definition of Humanity
1. n. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
Definition of Humanity
1. Noun. Mankind; human beings as a group. ¹
2. Noun. The human condition or nature. ¹
3. Noun. The quality of being benevolent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humanity
1. the human race [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Humanity
1. Origin: L. Humanitas: cf. F. Humanite. 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." 4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. "Polished with humanity and the study of witty science." (Holland) 5. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archaeology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literae humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . By way of opposition to the literae divinae, or divinity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humanity
Literary usage of Humanity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons by Henry Melvill, Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1844)
"When we say that Christ's humanity was Unfallen, wo are far enough from saying
that his humanity was the same that of Adam, before Adam trans- ourselves, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"Yet both individual conscience and the common consent of humanity are sui-red,
and to refuse to interrogate either, is to deprive oneself of oue essential ..."
3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"The positive stage, " the definitive stage of humanity," is the stage of
industrialism, in which the emphasis is placed on the social problem instead of the ..."
4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"He interprets history in the light of his ideal: progress means the realization
of the ideal of humanity, it means the perfection of man in society. ..."
5. The New Century Speaker for School and College: A Collection of Extracts by Henry Allyn Frink (1898)
"The Greek, with all his splendid achievements in art and literature, had no
thought of law as one with humanity. In his statutes, written or unwritten, ..."
6. The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United by Elisha Mulford (1870)
"Therefore the nation, as it has its end in the moral realization of the life of
humanity, is to regard each individual person also as an end, ..."
7. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"Christ's Assumption of real humanity, 1 HE arguments for the divinity of Christ,
... Now the reality of his humanity was anciently opposed by the ..."
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