humanity

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /hjuˈmænɪti/|[j̊ʊwˈmænɪɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Humankind; human beings as a group. uncountable
    — Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
  2. The human condition or nature. uncountable
  3. The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects. uncountable
    — Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!
  4. Any academic subject belonging to the humanities. countable
    — Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science.

词形变化

humanities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antihumanity crime against humanity criminal against humanity humanitarian humanitarianism inhumanity nonhumanity posthumanity subhumanity superhumanity suprahumanity transhumanity unhumanity whitemanity
相关词
humanities humane

词源

Inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye, from Old French humanité, from Latin hūmānitās. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”).
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