3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.'' --Locke.
4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in
classical and polite literature.
Polished with humanity and the study of witty
science. --Holland.
5. pl (With definite article) The branches of polite or
elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the
ancient classics; belles-letters.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
humanity
n 1: all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a
lover" [syn: {world}, {human race}, {humankind}, {human
beings}, {humans}, {mankind}, {man}]
2: the quality of being humane
3: the quality of being human [syn: {humanness}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the
anthropoid poets.
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