humanness
Example Sentences
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And so you get a power that’s much greater than your own, and you begin to look on other human beings with the type of awe and respect that their humanness deserves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“In learning to look at each other as closely as we can and approach each other in our humanness, there exists the possibility that doing so may carry us through hatred.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
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
