adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to humanism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
humanistic
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Pronunciation
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adjective
Meaning 2
pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- humanistic studies
- a humane education
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humanist, humane
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the humanistic revival of learning
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humanist
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion- Wendell Thomas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humanist
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a humane physician
- released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons
- respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English humanist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English humanistic From humanist + -ic.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: humanísticu — of or pertaining to humanism
- Belarusian: гуманісты́чны (humanistýčny) — of or pertaining to humanism
- Catalan: humanístic — of or pertaining to humanism
- Czech: humanistický — of or pertaining to humanism
- Danish: humanistisk — of or pertaining to humanism
- Dutch: humanistisch — of or pertaining to humanism
- Galician: humanístico — of or pertaining to humanism
- Georgian: ჰუმანისტური (humanisṭuri) — of or pertaining to humanism
- German: humanistisch — of or pertaining to humanism
- Greek: ανθρωπιστικός (anthropistikós) — of or pertaining to humanism
- Hungarian: humanisztikus — of or pertaining to humanism
- Italian: umanistico — of or pertaining to humanism
- Kazakh: гуманистік (gumanistık) — of or pertaining to humanism
- Latvian: humānistisks — of or pertaining to humanism
- Norwegian Bokmål: humanistisk — of or pertaining to humanism
- Norwegian Nynorsk: humanistisk — of or pertaining to humanism
- Polish: humanistyczny — of or pertaining to humanism
- Portuguese: humanístico — of or pertaining to humanism
- Russian: гуманисти́ческий (gumanistíčeskij) — of or pertaining to humanism
- Spanish: humanístico — of or pertaining to humanism
- Swedish: humanistisk — of or pertaining to humanism
- Tagalog: makaturuangtao — of or pertaining to humanism
- Ukrainian: гуманісти́чний (humanistýčnyj) — of or pertaining to humanism
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