humanness

Example Sentences

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“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

As soon as you upgrade to Alexa+ or Gemini for Home, the biggest change you’ll notice is the humanness of the assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 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

They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison