Synonyms for humaneness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hyoo-meyn or, often, yoo- |
| Phonetic Transcription : hyuˈmeɪn or, often, yu- |
Top 10 synonyms for humaneness
- advantage
- affection
- agape
- altruism
- amity
- attachment
- beneficence
- benefit
- benevolence
- benignity
- bountifulness
- bounty
- caritas
- charity
- clemency
- commiseration
- compunction
- condolence
- consideration
- ethicality
- fellow feeling
- generosity
- goodness
- goodwill
- grace
- heart
- honor
- humaneness
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindheartedness
- kindliness
- lenity
- love
- magnanimity
- mercy
- merit
- nourishment
- obligingness
- probity
- quality
- rectitude
- softheartedness
- softness
- sorrow
- superiority
- sympathy
- tenderheartedness
- tenderness
- uprightness
- value
- virtue
- wholesomeness
- worth
- yearning
Définition of humaneness
Origin :- mid-15c., variant of human (cf. german/germane, urban/urbane), used interchangeably with it until early 18c., by which time it had become a distinct word with sense of "having qualities befitting human beings." But inhuman still can be the opposite of humane. The Royal Humane Society (founded 1774) was originally to rescue drowning persons. Such societies had turned to animal care by late 19c.
- As in charity : noun kindness, compassion
- As in compassion : noun tender feeling
- As in goodness : noun decency, excellence
- Are not quacks then, whom we know, better than the doctors who put on an air of humaneness?
- Extract from : « Indian Home Rule » by M. K. Gandhi
- Religion does not generate sense, logic, or humaneness in the mind of Society.
- Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
- He is the epitome of mildness, the incarnation of humaneness.
- Extract from : « Comrade Kropotkin » by Victor Robinson
- So when his desire is the virtue of humaneness, and he attains it, how shall he then be covetous?
- Extract from : « The Wisdom of Confucius » by Epiphanius Wilson
- We must be humane; humaneness is not only beautiful, but also advantageous to us.
- Extract from : « The Shield » by Various
- His reply, which I believe has never as yet been published, redounds to his immortal fame as a man of fortitude and humaneness.
- Extract from : « Great Testimony » by Stephen Coleridge
- Humanism is humaneness based where Socrates and Plato based it, on knowledge, understanding and intelligence.
- Extract from : « The Unpopular Review, Number 19 » by Various
- It adds to family and the men's house a powerful agency in maintaining at least the possibility of humaneness and sympathy.
- Extract from : « Ethics » by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts
- He wrote an open letter to Hauptmann, to the author whom among Germans he chiefly honored for goodness and humaneness.
- Extract from : « Romain Rolland » by Stefan Zweig
- The humaneness shown by the Swedes to the Jews was avenged by the inhumanity of the Poles.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I (of 3) » by S. M. Dubnow
Antonyms for humaneness
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