Other forms: humanities
Humanity is people as a whole, or kindness towards them. All humanity, crimes against humanity, treated with humanity.
The two senses live side by side, and crimes against humanity uses both at once: offences against people, and against what it means to be humane. The humanities are a third thing, the study of language, history and art.
1nounhumanityPeople as a whole, or kindness towards them.
“The nurses treated every patient with great humanity.”
humanity is a people.
Latin humanitas means both human nature and kindness, from humanus.
Latin
hūmānitās
Old French
humanité
Middle English
humanyte
English, today
humanity
Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye, from Old French humanité, from Latin hūmānitās. by surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn literally “human race”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA