Word Meanings - MANKIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. Pore. 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22. 3. Human feelings; humanity. B. Jonson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANKIND)
- Humanity
- Man
- mankind
- kindness
- tenderness
- compassion
- sensibility
- philanthropy
- benevolence
- Philanthropy
- love of mankind
- general
Related words: (words related to MANKIND)
- MANKIND
1. The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. Pore. 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22. 3. Human feelings; humanity. B. Jonson. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - KINDNESS
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - HUMANITY
The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ - SENSIBILITY
The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. 2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; - BENEVOLENCE
1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species - GENERALITY
1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from - GENERALISSIMO
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. - GENERALLY
1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a - GENERALIZE
1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the - GENERALIZATION
1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. - GENERAL
One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. Note: In the United States the office - GENERALIA
Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill. - COMPASSIONATE
1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender; - GENERALIZER
One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall. - COMPASSION
Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - INHUMANITY
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - INSENSIBILITY
1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn. - APHILANTHROPY
Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe. - POSTMASTER-GENERAL
The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. - HUMANKIND
Mankind. Pope. - BRIGADIER GENERAL
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. - LOVING-KINDNESS
Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.