Human, Humane

Human, Humane
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Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” –Rig Veda

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” –Rig Veda

Human refers to people, us, the human beings: the thinking mammals.

Human functions as a noun and an adjective.

Human means relating to a person, characteristic of human beings, or humanity; unlike animals; having human form.

Human as a noun refers to the living beings the human beings who are characterized by intelligence, walking on two limbs and in erect posture, and speech.

Human is the one relating to the species of homo sapiens: the human beings.

“The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.” – W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), Playwright, novelist and short story writer

Humane means being compassionate to others including to their fellow species, animals, and Nature.
Humane refers to someone who has concern for the alleviation of suffering, someone showing moral advancement. Related adjectives are humanist, humanistic.

“The one time I remember discussing mortality was during an hour we spent on The Death of Ivan Ilych, Tolstoy’s classic novella. It was in a weekly seminar called Patient-Doctor—part of the school’s effort to make us more rounded and humane physicians.

Some weeks we would practice our physical examination etiquette; other weeks we’d dream about the effects of socio-economics on health.” –Being Mortal: MSedicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

What is the difference between human beings and chimpanzees? Bipedalism.
Humanity is a noun referring to all the living human beings, the inhabitants of the earth and also having the quality of humaneness.

Homo sapiens are the species of human beings who exist today, who rule the world (over animals) today; us; we
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” –M K Gandhi

Humanity means the human race, referred to the human beings collectively, the condition of human being, humaneness.
Humanities is a plural noun referring to the human attributes.

Humanities also refer to learning or literature concerned with human nature.

Humanities is a discipline, a field of study dealing with knowledge and intellectual skills unlike occupational skills.

Humanities such as liberal arts, arts are taught at many institutions.

Humanize is a verb meaning to make more humane: elected governments are expected to humanize the people, the societies and the countries.

Humanizer is the person who humanizes.

A society divided on racial, religious, class, caste and clan prejudices is not able to humanize…

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