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

The absurdity of Monk’s dual life is tied to the ordinary humanness of his family life, because it is to some degree born of the necessity of the responsibilities to family.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

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

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

The interaction reinspired hope in our shared humanness and inherent desire and ability to help each other.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Iofur Raknison was even taller and bulkier than Iorek, and his face was much more mobile and expressive, with a kind of humanness in it which she had never seen in Iorek’s.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman