humanness

/hjˈumənnəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

Countable; Uncountable

"Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued."
"Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point."
"These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]"

From human + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humaneness.

humannesses (plural)

humanity manhood

Questions

How do you pronounce humanness?

The recorded pronunciation is /hjˈumənnəs/.

What does humanness mean?

The condition or quality of being human.

Where does humanness come from?

From human + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humaneness.

How to pronounce humanness

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