humanness

Example Sentences

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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024

“Talk out loud, identify yourself, and allow those predators to kind of absorb the whole scene and all the humanness and help them realize this is not one of my usual prey items,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

It's a way of refusing our humanness, and with it our animal nature.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

They moved across the room stealthily and saw that it wasn’t entirely void of humanness.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds