humanity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   All human beings considered together as a group.

   New medical discoveries can benefit all of humanity.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of being kind and caring towards others.

   The doctors treated their patients with great humanity.

3. 3
   noun

   An academic subject within the humanities, such as literature or history.

   Philosophy is usually studied as a humanity rather than a science.

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

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