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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) :   [ devils ]

  HUMANITY, n.  The human race, collectively, exclusive of the
  anthropoid poets.
  
  

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humanities. [L. humanitas: cf.
     F. humanit['e]. See Human.]
     1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by
        which he is distinguished from other beings.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Mankind collectively; the human race.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              But hearing oftentimes
              The still, and music humanity.        --Wordsworth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              It is a debt we owe to humanity.      --S. S. Smith.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings,
        dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a
        disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and
        to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. ``The
        common offices of humanity and friendship.'' --Locke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in
        classical and polite literature.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Polished with humanity and the study of witty
              science.                              --Holland.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or
        elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the
        ancient classics; belles-letters.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history,
           and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very
           commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English,
           the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the
           liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh.
           [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humanities. [L. humanitas: cf.
     F. humanit['e]. See Human.]
     1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by
        which he is distinguished from other beings.
  
     2. Mankind collectively; the human race.
  
              But hearing oftentimes The still, and music
              humanity.                             --Wordsworth.
  
              It is a debt we owe to humanity.      --S. S. Smith.
  
     3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings,
        dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a
        disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and
        to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. ``The
        common offices of humanity and friendship.'' --Locke.
  
     4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in
        classical and polite literature.
  
              Polished with humanity and the study of witty
              science.                              --Holland.
  
     5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or
        elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the
        ancient classics; belles-letters.
  
     Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history,
           and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very
           commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English,
           the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the
           liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  humanity
       n 1: all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a
            lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind'
            seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race,
             humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]
       2: the quality of being humane
       3: the quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of
          all manhood" [syn: humanness, manhood]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     n.
     (1: humankind); human beings as a group.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     n.
     (1: humankind); human beings as a group.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     n.
     (1: humankind); human beings as a group.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     n.
     (1: humankind); human beings as a group.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     Englanti n.
     1 ihmiskunta
     2 ihmisyys

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  humanity
     Engelska n.
     1 mänsklighet
     2 medmänsklighet

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  الإنسانية

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  humanity //hjuˈmænɪti// /[hjuˈmænɪɾi]/ 
  1. чове́чество
  human beings as a group
  2. човечност
  human condition
  3. хуманност
  quality of being benevolent

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  lidství

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  humanita

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  lidskost

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  lidstvo

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  Humanität , Menschlichkeit , Mitmenschlichkeit 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  die Menschheit, der Mensch, die menschliche Rasse [veraltet]  [biol.]  [phil.]  [relig.]  [soc.]
        "for the good of humanity"  - zum Wohle der Menschheit
        "attack against all humanity"  - Angriff auf die gesamte Menschheit
     Synonyms: mankind, humankind, man, the human race, the human species
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  Menschlichkeit , Menschenhaftigkeit 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  
  ανθρωπότητα

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  humanity //hjuˈmænɪti// /[hjuˈmænɪɾi]/ 
  1. ihmiskunta, ihmisyys
  human beings as a group
  2. ihmisyys
  human condition
  3. humaanisuus
  quality of being benevolent

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  1. मानवजाति
        "महात्मा बुद्ध 'humanity' को अपने सिद्धान्तों का मार्गदर्शन दिखाया."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  dobrota, čovječanstvo

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  1. emberiesség
  2. emberiség
  3. emberi természet

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  humanity //hjuˈmænɪti// /[hjuˈmænɪɾi]/ 
  1. 人間性
  2. 人類, 人間性
  human beings as a group

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  humanity /hju:ˈmænɪtɪ/ 
   1.  ludzkość
   2.  humanitaryzm
   3. humanities /hjuːmˈanɪtiz/  przedmioty humanistyczne

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/ 
  humanidade

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  humanity //hjuˈmænɪti// /[hjuˈmænɪɾi]/ 
  1. mänsklighet 2.
  human beings as a group
   3.
  human condition
  2. mänsklighet, medmänsklighet
  quality of being benevolent

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  humanity /hjuːmˈanɪti/
  1. insan, beşer
  2. insanlık, beşeriyet, beniâdem
  3. insaniyetperverlik, merhamet, şefkat. the humanities klasik Yunan ve Latin edebiyatları üzerinde çalışma
  4. konusu insan olan ilimler, hümaniter bilimler.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/hjuˈmænɪti/, /juˈmænɪti/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "humanity":
     Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, acceptance, affectionateness,
     beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, brotherhood,
     charitableness, clay, clemency, clementness, commiseration,
     community, compassion, condolence, consideration, easiness,
     easygoingness, fallen humanity, favor, feeling, feeling of kinship,
     fellow feeling, flesh, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness,
     frailty, fraternal feeling, generation of man, generosity,
     gentleness, genus Homo, goodness, goodness of heart, grace,
     graciousness, heart of gold, helpfulness, hominid, homo,
     human equation, human family, human frailty, human nature,
     human race, human species, human weakness, humaneness, humankind,
     humanness, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition,
     kindness, laxness, le genre humain, lenience, leniency,
     lenientness, lenity, loving kindness, magnanimity, man, mankind,
     mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness,
     mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, niceness, pardon, pathos,
     patience, people, pity, quarter, race of man, relief, reprieve,
     ruth, self-pity, sensitivity, society, softheartedness, softness,
     soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness,
     the masses, the public, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness,
     warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart, weakness
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 人性,人类,博爱;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 人类,人性,仁慈;人文学科

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