Humanness vs Humane - What's the difference?
humanness | humane |
The condition or quality of being human.
* 1995 , Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)
* 2010 , "Crossing the uncanny valley", The Economist , 20 Nov 2010:
* 2014 , Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things (page 101)
Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
*, II.3.7:
As a noun humanness
is the condition or quality of being human.As an adjective humane is
having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.humanness
English
Noun
- Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
- Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.
- These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves
humane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
- As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
- many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
