Noun

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Mankind; human beings as a group.

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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

The condition or quality of being human.

* 1995 , Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)

Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued.

* 2010 , "Crossing the uncanny valley", The Economist , 20 Nov 2010:

Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.

* 2014 , Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things (page 101)

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