Noun

(-)

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 !”

Noun

(en-noun)

The study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship.

(historical, often capitalized) Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised by attention to Classical culture and a promotion of vernacular texts, notably during the Renaissance.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 575:

There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.

An ethical system that centers on humans and their values, needs, interests, abilities, dignity and freedom; especially used for a secular one which rejects theistic religion and superstition.

Humanitarianism, philanthropy.