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humanness

[hyoo-muhn-nis, yoo-] / ˈhju mən nɪs, ˈju- /


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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

It’s a compelling, occasionally uneven attempt to bring the Beatles back down to Earth by illustrating the humanness of one of its members and the wife he adored.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 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

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




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