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

“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

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

Rather than shaming and condemning an already deeply stigmatized group, we, collectively, can embrace them—not necessarily their behavior, but them—their humanness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander