humanness

Example Sentences

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As soon as you upgrade to Alexa+ or Gemini for Home, the biggest change you’ll notice is the humanness of the assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 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

Rather than shaming and condemning an already deeply stigmatized group, we, collectively, can embrace them—not necessarily their behavior, but them—their humanness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander