Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to humanity or the humanities; characteristic of humanists or of humanism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to humanity.
- adjective Pertaining to polite literature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
humanism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
- adjective of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
- adjective marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
- adjective of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion
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Examples
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Are you implying that only middle class blacks can think in humanistic terms towards the ‘other’?
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You ask whether I think only “middle class blacks can think in humanistic terms towards the ‘other’?”.
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In essence, being humanistic is a worthy endeavour and one to which I subscribe fully.
Malcolm Levene: The Value of Being Humanistic in Business Malcolm Levene 2010
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Perhaps that's why most experiments in humanistic governance have been total, abject failures, marked by significant levels of genocide to cleanse the population of people who get in the way of progress.
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Guardian Figures? in humanistic forms from Kalimantan and Timor.?
The West Coast Style Show Celebrates Creative Avant-Garde Culture 2006
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I'm troubled by both the private and public versions of an economic focus, and I'm drawn to what, for lack of a better word, might be called the humanistic purposes -- again, in both their private and public expressions.
Alfie Kohn: STEM Sell: Are Math and Science Really More Important Than Other Subjects? Alfie Kohn 2011
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I am troubled by both the private and public versions of an economic focus, and I am drawn to what, for lack of a better word, might be called the humanistic purposes -- again, in both their private and public expressions.
STEM Sell: Are math, science really more important than other subjects? Valerie Strauss 2011
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I'm troubled by both the private and public versions of an economic focus, and I'm drawn to what, for lack of a better word, might be called the humanistic purposes -- again, in both their private and public expressions.
Alfie Kohn: STEM Sell: Are Math and Science Really More Important Than Other Subjects? Alfie Kohn 2011
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Exactly, which is why these so-called humanistic movements always end up killing so many people.
Will pro-choice activists give any moral weight to the unborn? Ann Althouse 2008
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What I call the humanistic and individualistic side of the Enlightenment was generally associated with the French, and in order to break away from Napoleon, the Germans embraced the scientific and rational side of the Enlightenment.
An Insidious Evil 2004
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