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Humanity vs Generosity - What's the difference?

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Humanity is a related term of generosity.


As nouns the difference between humanity and generosity

is that humanity is mankind; human beings as a group while generosity is (uncountable) the trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.

humanity

English

Noun

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  • Mankind; human beings as a group.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity , and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
  • The human condition or nature.
  • The quality of being benevolent.
  • Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
  • Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities !”

    Synonyms

    * (benevolence) * See also

    Derived terms

    * humanitarian * humanitarianism

    generosity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money and/or time.
  • * 1963 : Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society
  • We have mentioned generosity as an outstanding virtue required in Sioux life.
  • (uncountable) Acting generously.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • (uncountable) The trait of being abundant, more than adequate.
  • (literally, uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.
  • (countable) A generous act.
  • * 1873 : Reverend M. C. Tyler, Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Sage College of the Cornell University
  • May the generosities of the founders of these halls, be rewarded by the fair and holy characters which shall be here formed.

    Synonyms

    * liberality * nobility

    Antonyms

    * stinginess