English-Thai Dictionary

humanity

N คน ทั่วไป  มนุษย์ โลก  kon-tua-pai

 

humanity

N มนุษยธรรม  คุณ ธรรม ของ มนุษย์  ความเป็นมนุษย์  ma-nud-sa-ya-chon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUMANITY

n.[L. humanitas. ] 1. The peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Thus Christ, by his incarnation, was invested with humanity.
2. Mankind collectively; the human race.
If he is able to untie those knots, he is able to teach all humanity.
It is a debt we owe to humanity.
3. The kind feelings, dispositions and sympathies of man, by which he is distinguished from the lower orders of animals; kindness; benevolence; especially, a disposition to relieve persons in distress, and to treat with tenderness those who are helpless and defenseless; opposed to cruelty.
4. A disposition to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness, or at least to give them no unnecessary pain.
5. The exercise of kindness; acts of tenderness.
6. Philology; grammatical studies.
Humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric and poetry; for teaching which there are professors in the universities of Scotland.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HUMANITY

Hu *man "i *ty, n.; pl. Humanities. Etym: [L. humanitas: cf. F.humanité. See Human. ]

 

1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

 

2. Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

 

3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship. " Locke.

 

4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.

 

5. pl. (With definite article )

 

Defn: The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

 

Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, ... by way of opposition to the literæ divinæ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

humanity

hu man i ty |(h )yo͞oˈmanitē (h )juˈmænədi | ▶noun ( pl. humanities ) 1 the human race; human beings collectively: appalling crimes against humanity. • the fact or condition of being human; human nature: music is the universal language with which we can express our common humanity. 2 humaneness; benevolence: he praised them for their standards of humanity, care, and dignity. 3 (humanities ) learning or literature concerned with human culture, esp. literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French humanite, from Latin humanitas, from humanus (see human ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

humanity

hu ¦man |ity |hjʊˈmanɪti | ▶noun ( pl. humanities ) [ mass noun ] 1 human beings collectively: appalling crimes against humanity. • the state of being human: our differences matter but our common humanity matters more. 2 the quality of being humane; benevolence: he praised them for their standards of humanity and care. 3 (humanities ) learning concerned with human culture, especially literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French humanite, from Latin humanitas, from humanus (see human ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

humanity

humanity noun 1 humanity evolved from the apes: humankind, mankind, man, people, human beings, humans, the human race, mortals; Homo sapiens. 2 the humanity of Christ: human nature, humanness, mortality. 3 he praised them for their humanity: compassion, brotherly love, fraternity, fellow feeling, philanthropy, humaneness, kindness, consideration, understanding, sympathy, tolerance; leniency, mercy, mercifulness, clemency, pity, tenderness; benevolence, charity, goodness, magnanimity, generosity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

humanity

humanity noun 1 humanity evolved from the higher apes: humankind, the human race, the human species, mankind, man, people, mortals; Latin Homo sapiens. ANTONYMS the animal kingdom. 2 the humanity of Christ: human nature, humanness, mortality, flesh and blood. 3 he praised them for their standards of humanity, care, and dignity: compassion, brotherly love, fellow feeling, humaneness, kindness, kind-heartedness, consideration, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, goodness, good-heartedness, gentleness, leniency, mercy, mercifulness, pity, tenderness, benevolence, charity, generosity, magnanimity. ANTONYMS cruelty; inhumanity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

humanity

hu man i ty /hjumǽnəti / (! 強勢は第2音節 ) →human 名詞 複 -ties /-z /U 1 〖集合的に; 単複両扱い 〗人類 (→mankind ); 人間 ▸ This terrible problem faces all humanity .この大変な問題は全人類にのしかかっている 2 人間であること ; 人間性 ; 〖-ties 〗人間の属性 ▸ crimes against humanity 人道に対する罪 3 人情 , 慈愛 , 親切 ; 〖通例 -ties 〗慈善行為 ▸ The heathens were treated with humanity .異教徒たちは慈愛に満ちた扱いを受けた 4 〖(the ) -ties 〗(ギリシャ ラテンの )古典文学 , ギリシャ ラテン語学 ; (自然科学に対して )人文科学 〘語学 文学 歴史 哲学を含む 〙.