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humanity
According to the etymology and original usage, beneficence is the doing well, benevolence the wishing or willing well to others; but benevolence has come to include beneficence, and to displace it. We should not now speak of benevolence which did not help, unless where there was no power to help; even then we should rather say good-will or sympathy. Charity, which originally meant the purest love for God and man (as in 1 Cor. xiii), is now almost universally applied to some form of almsgiving, and is much more limited in meaning than benevolence. Benignity suggests some occult power of blessing, such as was formerly ascribed to the stars; we may say a good man has an air of benignity. Kindness and tenderness are personal; benevolence and charity are general. Kindness extends to all sentient beings, whether men or animals, in prosperity or in distress. Tenderness especially goes out toward the young, feeble, and needy, or even to the dead. Humanity is so much kindness and tenderness toward man or beast as it would be inhuman not to have; we say of some act of care or kindness, «common humanity requires it.» Generosity is self-forgetful kindness in disposition or action; it includes much besides giving; as, the generosity of forgiveness. Bounty applies to ample giving, which on a larger scale is expressed by munificence. Liberality indicates broad, genial kindly views, whether manifested in gifts or otherwise. We speak of the bounty of a generous host, the liberality or munificence of the founder of a college, or of the liberality of a theologian toward the holders of conflicting beliefs. Philanthropy applies to wide schemes for human welfare, often, but not always, involving large expenditures in charity or benevolence. Compare MERCY.
Synonyms:
almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishnessAntonyms:
barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindnessPreposition:
Benevolence of, on the part of, or from the wealthy, to or toward the poor.
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humanity
Synonyms:
man, mankind, kindness, tenderness, compassion, sensibility, philanthropy, benevolenceAntonyms:
unkindness, cruelty, inhumanity, bestiality, irrationality, barbarity
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humanitynoun
the quality of being humane
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manhood, man, humankind, mankind, human beings, humanness, world, humans, human race -
humanness, humanity, manhoodnoun
the quality of being human
«he feared the speedy decline of all manhood»
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manhood, mankind, man, humankind, human beings, humanness, world, humans, human race -
world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, mannoun
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»
Synonyms:
cosmos, humans, globe, military personnel, homo, man, universe, piece, populace, existence, valet, humankind, human race, public, earth, reality, adult male, humanness, worldly concern, human beings, world, macrocosm, human being, valet de chambre, domain, gentleman, human, serviceman, military man, gentleman’s gentleman, mankind, manhood, earthly concern, creation
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humanitynoun
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humanitynoun
Synonyms:
kindness, benevolence, benignity, philanthropy, tenderness, sympathy, charity, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good nature, milk of human kindness
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Austin Butler:
The whole thing was about stripping away the icon of Elvis and getting down to the humanity of him, that was what was fascinating to me. But music was the way he expressed himself and so what way to connect to his soul more than trying to do that as authentically as possible.
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Andre Maurois:
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love.
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Se Young Lee:
Lee Sedol is the one who lost today, not humanity.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:
I hope we will be achieving our goal to help all the refugees, as well as to deepen Turkish-EU relations — which is … good news for our continent and for humanity all together.
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Pope Francis:
It’s piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won’t say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don’t think humanity today could bear it.
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- إنسانيةArabic
- humanitatCatalan, Valencian
- lidstvoCzech
- menneskelighedDanish
- Menschheit, Humanität, MenschlichkeitGerman
- ανθρωπιά, ανθρώπινη υπόσταση, ανθρωπότηταGreek
- la homaroEsperanto
- humanidadSpanish
- inimkond, humaansus, inimlikkus, inimsusEstonian
- بشریتPersian
- humaanisuus, ihmisyys, ihmiskuntaFinnish
- humanitéFrench
- daonnachtaIrish
- मानवताHindi
- emberiségHungarian
- kemanusiaanIndonesian
- benevolenza, umanitàItalian
- האנושותHebrew
- 人類Japanese
- ಮಾನವೀಯತೆKannada
- 人類, 人間, 인간, 인류Korean
- مرۆڤایهتی, mirovatîKurdish
- humanityLatin
- cilvēce, cilvēcība, cilvēcigums, humanitāteLatvian
- hunga tāngataMāori
- mensdom, menslievendheid, humaniteit, menselijkheid, mensengeslacht, mensheidDutch
- menneskehetenNorwegian
- ludzkośćPolish
- humanidadePortuguese
- runakayQuechua
- benevolență, omenire, bunătate, umanitateRomanian
- гуманность, человечество, человечностьRussian
- mänsklighet, medmänsklighetSwedish
- மனிதTamil
- మానవత్వంTelugu
- มนุษยชาติThai
- insanlıkTurkish
- людствоUkrainian
- انسانیتUrdu
- nhân loạiVietnamese
- מענטשהייַטYiddish
- 人性Chinese
- ubuntu, isintuZulu
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- humankind
- mankind
- society
- humanness
- people
- Homo sapiens
- human beings
- compassion
- empathy
- friendship
- generosity
- goodness
- goodwill
- kindness
- altruism
- amity
- charity
- feeling
- heart
- kindheartedness
- mercy
- sympathy
- brotherly love
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO HUMANITY
- earth
- flesh
- human species
- humanity
- humankind
- man
- mortality
- people
- society
- universe
- world
- affection
- agape
- altruism
- amity
- attachment
- benevolence
- benignity
- bountifulness
- bounty
- caritas
- clemency
- fellow feeling
- generosity
- goodness
- goodwill
- grace
- humaneness
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindliness
- lenity
- love
- magnanimity
- mercy
- tenderheartedness
- caritas
- charity
- compassion
- endurance
- equitableness
- fairness
- forbearance
- gentleness
- grace
- humanity
- indulgence
- justness
- kindness
- lenience
- leniency
- lenity
- lifesaver
- mercifulness
- mercy
- mildness
- moderation
- soft-heartedness
- sufferance
- tenderness
- tolerance
- toleration
- benevolence
- charity
- clemency
- commiseration
- compunction
- condolence
- consideration
- empathy
- fellow feeling
- grace
- heart
- humaneness
- humanity
- kindness
- lenity
- mercy
- softheartedness
- softness
- sorrow
- sympathy
- tenderheartedness
- tenderness
- yearning
- candor
- charitableness
- charity
- civility
- consideration
- courtesy
- decency
- decorum
- disinterestedness
- due
- duty
- equitableness
- equity
- exactitude
- fair shake
- fair-mindedness
- give and take
- good faith
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- humanity
- impartiality
- integrity
- justness
- legitimacy
- moderation
- open-mindedness
- propriety
- rationality
- reasonableness
- right
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- seemliness
- square deal
- suitability
- tolerance
- truth
- uprightness
- veracity
- Homo sapiens
- animality
- carnality
- human nature
- human race
- humanity
- living creatures
- mortality
- people
- physical nature
- physicality
- race
- sensuality
- stock
- world
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1 flesh, Homo sapiens, humankind, human race, man, mankind, men, mortality, people
2 human nature, humanness, mortality
3 benevolence, benignity, brotherly love, charity, compassion, fellow feeling, kind-heartedness, kindness, mercy, philanthropy, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, understanding
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
humanities
classical studies, classics, liberal arts, literae humaniores
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humanity
( humanities plural )
1 n-uncount All the people in the world can be referred to as humanity.
They face charges of committing crimes against humanity.
2 n-uncount A person’s humanity is their state of being a human being, rather than an animal or an object.
FORMAL with poss
…a man who’s almost lost his humanity in his bitter hatred of his rivals.
3 n-uncount Humanity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and sympathetic towards others.
Her speech showed great maturity and humanity.
4 n-plural Thehumanities are the subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature which are concerned with human ideas and behaviour.
oft the N
…students majoring in the humanities.
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381 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hjuːmˈanɪti], [ hjuːmˈanɪti], [ h_j_uː_m_ˈa_n_ɪ_t_i]
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n.
• Homo sapiens (noun)
- uni verse,
- homo-sapiens,
- uni-verse.
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- affinity,
- condolences,
- sentiment.
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- genotype,
- the human race,
- being,
- understanding,
- fauna,
- life,
- virtue,
- animal,
- organism,
- the animal/plant kingdom.
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- the many,
- your fellow man/men.
• attribute (noun)
- humanity.
• benevolence (noun)
- feeling,
- Sympathies,
- Comities,
- humanities,
- altruism,
- kindheartedness,
- goodness,
- kindliness,
- amity,
- comity,
- sympathy,
- brotherly love,
- friendship,
- generosity.
• charity (noun)
- caritases,
- tenderheartednesses,
- humanenesses,
- agapai.
• clemency (noun)
- sufferances,
- lifesavers,
- softheartednesses,
- soft heartedness,
- soft-heartednesses,
- soft heartednesses.
• fairness (noun)
- fair mindedness,
- up-rightness,
- dis interestednesses,
- give take,
- give takes,
- openmindedness,
- square deals,
- fairmindedness,
- reasonablenesses,
- dis-interestedness,
- dis interestedness,
- up rightness,
- up-rightnesses,
- up rightnesses,
- open mindedness,
- dis-interestednesses.
• flesh (noun)
- human races,
- physical natures.
• forgiveness (noun)
- clemency.
• heart (noun)
- dis-position,
- dis positions,
- dis-positions,
- under standing,
- under standings,
- under-standing,
- under-standings,
- dis position.
• human beings (noun)
- human beings.
• humanity (noun)
- humans,
- man.
• humankind (noun)
- human specie.
• human nature (noun)
- human equations,
- weakness the flesh,
- human frailties,
- human-nature,
- human weaknesses,
- weakness of flesh,
- weakness flesh,
- frail humanities,
- human fallibilities.
• humanness (noun)
- mortality.
• human race (noun)
- humanness,
- mankind.
• impartialness (noun)
- dis passionatenesses,
- dis passions,
- dis-passions,
- dis passion,
- dis interests,
- dis-passion,
- dis-passionatenesses,
- dis passionateness,
- dis-interest,
- dis interest,
- dis-passionateness,
- dis-interests.
• justice (noun)
- fairness.
• justness (noun)
- justness.
• kindness (noun)
- serviceabilities,
- graciousnesses,
- solicitousnesses,
- un selfishness,
- un selfishnesses,
- un-selfishness,
- un-selfishnesses,
- good intentions.
• lenience (noun)
- liberalnesses,
- Permissivenesses,
- broadmindednesses,
- broad mindedness,
- broad-mindednesses,
- broad mindednesses.
• lenity (noun)
- lenity.
• mankind (noun)
- commonwealth,
- Family,
- culture,
- populace,
- folk,
- species,
- public,
- citizenry,
- community.
• mercy (noun)
- re lief,
- re-lief.
• mortality (noun)
- Temporalities,
- temporality,
- transience,
- impermanence,
- ephemerality.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- kindness,
- equity,
- Objectiveness,
- Soft-heartedness,
- living creature,
- physical nature,
- good intention,
- human fallibility,
- weakness of the flesh,
- sensitivities,
- pity,
- broadmindedness,
- reasonableness,
- heart,
- nonpartisanship,
- unselfishness,
- human frailty,
- liberalness,
- humankind,
- legitimacy,
- compassion,
- serviceability,
- physicality,
- sufferance,
- goodwill,
- softness,
- toleration,
- CARITAS,
- people,
- softheartedness,
- human equation,
- mildness,
- graciousness,
- liberalism,
- broad-mindedness,
- empathy,
- human race,
- humaneness,
- Agapae,
- flesh,
- Palates,
- human nature,
- generousness,
- lenience,
- benevolence,
- Impartialness,
- forbearance,
- tenderheartedness,
- human species,
- charity,
- social order,
- sensuality,
- permissiveness,
- give and take,
- Sweetness,
- frail humanity,
- fair-mindedness,
- living creatures,
- veracity,
- human weakness,
- mercy,
- square deal,
- solicitousness,
- society,
- world,
- lifesaver.
• people (noun)
- peoples,
- person in the street,
- general public,
- rank and file.
• pity (noun)
- Condolement.
• society (noun)
- social orders.
• tolerance (noun)
- liberalisms.
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Other synonyms:
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- Ubuntu,
- homo sapiens,
- tolerance,
- customer,
- condolence.
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- creature,
- many,
- identification,
- bod.
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- statistic,
- bird,
- specimen,
- individual,
- person,
- living.
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- sort.
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- character.
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- face,
- soul.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- forbearing,
- cordiality,
- pathos,
- charitable,
- endaemonism,
- Everybody,
- sociology,
- merciful,
- hominid,
- sensitivity,
- Warm-heartedness,
- bounteous,
- linguistic,
- creation,
- affectionateness,
- hominidae,
- forgiveness,
- hospitality,
- mortally,
- brotherhood,
- friendly,
- favorable,
- classic,
- benign,
- reality,
- warmheartedness,
- fellow-feeling,
- clementness,
- bountiful,
- Good Naturedness,
- affection,
- social science,
- genial,
- easiness,
- pardon,
- serviceman,
- gentleness,
- humanitarianism,
- self-pity,
- masses,
- philanthropy,
- Almsgiving,
- charitableness,
- macrocosm,
- Kind-heartedness,
- helpfulness,
- bounty,
- concern,
- friendliness,
- globe,
- alms-giving,
- liberality,
- generation,
- good-heartedness,
- manhood,
- Tender-heartedness,
- generous,
- forgiving,
- humanely,
- moderateness,
- ball,
- human,
- universe,
- benignant,
- laxness,
- worldly concern,
- indulgence,
- humanitarian,
- favour,
- selflessness,
- considerate,
- Open-handedness,
- piece,
- Open-heartedness,
- benignancy,
- earth,
- reprieve,
- warmth,
- amiability,
- good will,
- men,
- bowels,
- terrestrial,
- kernel,
- acceptance,
- civilization,
- beneficial,
- love,
- clement,
- relief,
- favor,
- gentleman,
- art,
- favourable,
- mercifulness,
- earthly concern,
- good,
- ruth,
- benignity,
- geniality,
- folks,
- decency,
- respectable,
- largeheartedness,
- compassionate,
- good wishes,
- military personnel,
- leniency,
- self-sacrifice,
- humanly,
- tenderness,
- Public-spiritedness,
- existence,
- affectionate,
- niceness,
- letter,
- gracious,
- munificence,
- bonhomie,
- bigheartedness,
- liberal studies,
- beneficent,
- commiseration,
- good nature,
- magnanimity,
- thoughtfulness,
- mitigation,
- civilisation,
- cosmos,
- easygoingness,
- Valet De Chambre,
- gentle,
- mortals,
- Everyone,
- good feeling,
- beneficence,
- muse,
- humanism,
- weakness,
- quarter,
- patience,
- human kind,
- clay,
- indulgent,
- grace,
- sensibility,
- human being,
- consideration,
- long-suffering,
- military man,
- domain,
- benevolent,
- individually,
- yearning,
- valet,
- homo,
- frailty,
- loving-kindness.
How to use «Humanity» in context?
Humanity is defined as the quality or state of being human. It is the essential quality of being a human being, distinguished from other animals. Humanity is regarded as the most important character trait.
Humanity is the product of evolution and is unique to humans. It is responsible for the progress and development of civilization. Humanity is the source of all moral values.
Humanity is the cradle of art, literature, and science. It is the source of justice, love, and compassion. Humanity is the hope of the world.
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Proper noun, singular
humankind, mankind.
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Noun, singular or mass
humaneness, humankind, mankind.
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humankind, mankind.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
mankind.
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humankind, mankind.
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Proper noun, singular
human.
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Noun, singular or mass
human, men.
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Verb, base form
human.
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Independent
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earth, crosses.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
being.
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Proper noun, singular
humanitarian.
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Noun, singular or mass
civilisation, compassion, humanism, humanitarian, humanitarianism.
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Proper noun, singular
Hyponym for Humanity:
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humaneness.
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