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

We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson