[
US
/ˈhjumənnəs/
]
[ UK /hjˈuːmənnəs/ ]
[ UK /hjˈuːmənnəs/ ]
NOUN
-
the quality of being human
he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
How To Use humanness In A Sentence
- While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
- Palaver is possible within the traditional worldview and life style called Ubuntu [humanness].
- And so, in reviewing what was in our long run a rainbow trail round the curve of the world, though I shall try to write from the height of my head, making honest this document, as he would have it, without sainting his humanness, I know I shall find myself most often directed from the depth of my heart toward a bountiful estimate of his abounding lovableness, charm, and variety. PREFACE:
- Whilst we gained a sense of Caliban's non-humanness, we lost much sense of him as a gross, repulsive creature.
- Want firm station position, hold to literary humanness civilian the service, direction that serves for socialism.
- That a goon is a goon has to do with their humanness, not their politics. Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site
- I knew a profound new question challenged me: Is love the essential marrow of our humanness?
- Whilst we gained a sense of Caliban's non-humanness, we lost much sense of him as a gross, repulsive creature.
- Studies such as these indicate how closely the contemporary understanding of true humanness is connected to the sense of personal identity and selfhood.
- With his belief in humanity as a state to be attained rather than granted, Overton considers political reformation crucial for regaining our prelapsarian humanness.