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

“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