Humanness vs Humanitarian - What's the difference?
humanness | humanitarian |
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)
Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate.
As nouns the difference between humanness and humanitarian
is that humanness is the condition or quality of being human while humanitarian is a person with such concerns; a philanthropist or do-gooder.As an adjective humanitarian is
concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or 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