humanness
Example Sentences
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To surrender such decisions to some putatively wiser entity is, in some essential sense, to surrender our humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”
From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024
It's a way of refusing our humanness, and with it our animal nature.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
I don’t think there’s something like an ideal state of authentic humanness, nor do I think that humanness is better than non-humanness.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
They moved across the room stealthily and saw that it wasn’t entirely void of humanness.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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