Humility vs Humanity - What's the difference?
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The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
Mankind; human beings as a group.
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The quality of being benevolent.
Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
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As nouns the difference between humanity and humility
is that humanity is mankind; human beings as a group while humility is the characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.humility
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(wikipedia humility)Noun
Usage notes
* Commonly used to mean “modesty, lack of pride” (with respect to one’s achievements), and in formal religious contexts to refer to a transcendent egolessness.Synonyms
* egolessness, humilitude, meekness, modesty, self-effacementAntonyms
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(-)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.}}
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- 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 !”