humanness
Example Sentences
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“I’m interested in touch, activity, humanness — the character of being alive and human — and connection,” said Haendel, who grew up on the East Coast and completed a master’s of fine art at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
To surrender such decisions to some putatively wiser entity is, in some essential sense, to surrender our humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
"He has a deep love for people. He listens. He looks people in the eye. Sandy's humanness is my dad's humanness. I feel immensely lucky to be his son," he says.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024
“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
