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Word entry · 8 letters

humanism

Best crossword clue

"people-first creed"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhjuːmənɪz(ə)m/Part of speech nounSorted ahimmnsuStarts with HEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A worldview centered on reason, ethics, and people's welfare rather than the supernatural.

Word origin

From human + -ism, borrowed from German Humanismus, coined by Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer in 1808.

Used in a sentence

  • There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.
  • Near-synonyms: solidarity, philanthropy, generosity

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