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humanity

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"People as a whole"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /hjuˈmænɪti/Part of speech nounSorted ahimntuyStarts with HEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • At last the concourse is relatively clear of humanity and the task of clearing up can begin.
  • “The internet”, Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Google, famously observed, “is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
  • Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!

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