## Meanings
1. All human beings considered together as a group.
2. The quality of being kind and caring towards others.
3. An academic subject within the humanities, such as literature or history.

## Examples
- New medical discoveries can benefit all of humanity.
- The doctors treated their patients with great humanity.
- Philosophy is usually studied as a humanity rather than a science.

## Derived Forms
- antihumanity
- humanitarian
- humanitarianism
- nonhumanity
- posthumanity
- subhumanity
- superhumanity
- suprahumanity
- transhumanity
- unhumanity
- whitemanity

## Related Forms
- humane
- humanities

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: humanyte

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”).

## AI Etymology
Humanity is inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “All human beings considered together as a group” and “The quality of being kind and caring towards others”.

## Topics
- People & Society

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