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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun humanism has 3 senses
- humanism(n = noun.cognition) humanitarianism - the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare; Array is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought
- humanism(n = noun.cognition) secular humanism - the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural; Array is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought
- humanism(n = noun.group) Array - the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies; Array is a kind of cultural movement
Derived forms noun humanist2, adjective humanistic4
Derived form noun humanist2
Derived forms noun humanist1, adjective humanistic2
CIDE DICTIONARY
humanism, n.
- Human nature or disposition; humanity. [1913 Webster]"[She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism." [1913 Webster]
- The study of the humanities; polite learning. [1913 Webster]
- A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
humanism, n.
1 an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
2 a belief or outlook emphasizing common human needs and seeking solely rational ways of solving human problems, and concerned with mankind as responsible and progressive intellectual beings.
3 (often Humanism) literary culture, esp. that of the Renaissance humanists.
1 an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
2 a belief or outlook emphasizing common human needs and seeking solely rational ways of solving human problems, and concerned with mankind as responsible and progressive intellectual beings.
3 (often Humanism) literary culture, esp. that of the Renaissance humanists.
THESAURUS
humanism
Christian humanism, Religious Humanism, anthroposophy, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, free thought, freethinking, humanistic scholarship, integral humanism, intellectualism, intellectuality, latitudinarianism, learnedness, letters, literacy, naturalistic humanism, new humanism, pedantism, pedantry, reading, scholarship, secular humanism
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