humanness — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The condition or quality of being human.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (1)

   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 […]

Noun

1. the quality of being human

   Synonyms

   humanitymanhood

   Broader terms

   quality

   Examples

   he feared the speedy decline of all manhood