Humanity vs Mankind - What's the difference?
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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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The human race in its entirety.
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Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) Human feelings; humanity.
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As nouns the difference between humanity and mankind
is that humanity is mankind; human beings as a group while mankind is the human race in its entirety.humanity
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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 !”
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* (benevolence) * See alsoDerived terms
* humanitarian * humanitarianismExternal links
* *mankind
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