Definitions for humanism

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humanism hu·man·ism

Spelling: [hyoo-muh-niz-uh m or, often, Humanism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in humanism (ahimmnsu).

Definitions for humanism

noun

1. any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
2. devotion to or study of the humanities.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) the studies, principles, or culture of the humanists.
4. Philosophy. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.

Origin of humanism

First recorded in 1805-15; human + -ism

Examples for humanism

For all its supposed warmth and humanism, Midnight is completely inhuman to half the population.

Gloria Steinem famously said that feminism is, at its core, humanism.

Professor Manby speaks for humanism, another point of view in the church.

Zwingli was under the influence of humanism from his boyhood.

It was the ultimate guarantor of the humanism he advanced against Nazism.

A word must be said of the humanism which preceded the Renaissance.

This spirit of humanism, however, is no single motive or feeling.

But it is now time to speak of humanism at the Italian courts.

Karl Schmidt says, "humanism, but not morality, ruled in the Vatican."

No renaissance of humanism, no witchcraft of poetry can re-animate them.