humanness

Example Sentences

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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024

“Talk out loud, identify yourself, and allow those predators to kind of absorb the whole scene and all the humanness and help them realize this is not one of my usual prey items,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

It's a way of refusing our humanness, and with it our animal nature.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

Iofur Raknison was even taller and bulkier than Iorek, and his face was much more mobile and expressive, with a kind of humanness in it which she had never seen in Iorek’s.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman