noun
Meaning 1
The property of being humane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
humaneness
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noun
Meaning 2
the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: inhumaneness
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: humanity, mercifulness, mercy
History
Etymology
From humane + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humanness.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: кешелек (keşelek) — property of being humane
- Bashkir: кешелеклелек (keşeleklelek) — property of being humane
- Chinese Mandarin: 仁慈 (réncí) — property of being humane
- Crimean Tatar: insaniyetlik — property of being humane
- Czech: lidskost — property of being humane
- Finnish: inhimillisyys — property of being humane
- Latvian: cilvēcība — property of being humane
- Latvian: cilvēcīgums — property of being humane
- Latvian: humanitāte — property of being humane
- Romanian: omenie — property of being humane
- Romanian: umanitate — property of being humane
- Serbo-Croatian: čȍvjekoljūblje — property of being humane
- Serbo-Croatian: čovjekoljùbivōst — property of being humane
- Turkish: insaniyetlik — property of being humane
- Zulu: ubuntu — property of being humane