English noun: humanity | |||
1. | humanity (attribute) the quality of being humane | ||
Broader (hypernym) | humaneness | ||
2. | humanity (attribute) the quality of being human | ||
Samples | He feared the speedy decline of all manhood. | ||
Synonyms | humanness, manhood | ||
Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
Attribute | human, nonhuman | ||
3. | humanity (animal) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | ||
Samples | All the world loves a lover. She always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women. | ||
Synonyms | human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world | ||
Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping, homo, human, human being, man | ||
Member holonym | people | ||