Synonyms for humanity
hyuˈmæn ɪ ti; often yu-hu·man·i·ty

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1. 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, unselfishness

   Antonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Preposition:
   Benevolence of, on the part of, or from the wealthy, to or toward the poor.

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1. humanity

   Synonyms:
   man, mankind, kindness, tenderness, compassion, sensibility, philanthropy, benevolence

   Antonyms:
   unkindness, cruelty, inhumanity, bestiality, irrationality, barbarity

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1. humanitynoun

   the quality of being humane

   Synonyms:
   manhood, man, humankind, mankind, human beings, humanness, world, humans, human race

2. humanness, humanity, manhoodnoun

   the quality of being human

   "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"

   Synonyms:
   manhood, mankind, man, humankind, human beings, humanness, world, humans, human race

3. 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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1. • Group
   • Homo
   • Humaneness

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1. humanitynoun

   Synonyms:
   human nature

2. humanitynoun

   Synonyms:
   kindness, benevolence, benignity, philanthropy, tenderness, sympathy, charity, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good nature, milk of human kindness

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1. List of paraphrases for "humanity":

   mankind, humankind, humanitarian, human, 'humanité, humanism, humanitarianism, humane, humaneness

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1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The horrific murder of an innocent girl in her bed sheds light on the bloodlust and lack of humanity displayed by the terrorists we are facing.

2. New York:

   You see that video and it disturbs your basic sense of decency and humanity, why, why, why was that necessary? Where was the threat?

3. Spencer Stone:

   Faced with the evil called terrorism there is a good, that's humanity. You are the incarnation of that.

4. Tim Heaphy:

   I don't think she's just tough, there's a humanity, there's a human touch that she has that will also serve her well, nobody is going to mistake that she's in charge, but her humility and sense of humor will come through.

5. Olive Schreiner:

   Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.