humanness

Example Sentences

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“In learning to look at each other as closely as we can and approach each other in our humanness, there exists the possibility that doing so may carry us through hatred.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

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

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

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

The interaction reinspired hope in our shared humanness and inherent desire and ability to help each other.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

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