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Humanist vs Humanize - What's the difference?

humanist | humanize |

As a noun humanist

is a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities.

As an adjective humanist

is relating to humanism or the humanities.

As a verb humanize is

to make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.

humanist

Noun

(en noun)
  • a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities
  • a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism
  • (historical) In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • relating to humanism or the humanities
  • (typography, of a typeface) Resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
  • Antonyms

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    humanize

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (humaniz)
  • To make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.
  • * Addison
  • Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
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       ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing .’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
  • To make sympathetic or relatable.
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  • (medicine) To convert into something human or belonging to humans.
  • to humanize vaccine lymph
    humanized monoclonal antibodies

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (humaniz)
  • To make humane.
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