HUMANNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humanness mean? 

• HUMANNESS (noun)
  The noun HUMANNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being human

  Familiarity information: HUMANNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMANNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being human

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

humanity; humanness; manhood

Context example:

he feared the speedy decline of all manhood

Hypernyms ("humanness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

human (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings)

nonhuman (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings)

Derivation:

human (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings)

human (characteristic of humanity)

human (relating to a person)

 Context examples 

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The trick had been to fling over the face of his artistry a mask of humanness, and this he had done in the half-dozen or so stories of the horror brand he had written before he emerged upon the high peaks of Adventure, Joy, The Pot, and The Wine of Life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)