Word Meanings - UTOPIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

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• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• 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
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• HUMANIST
  1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
• HUMANKIND
  Mankind. Pope.
• UTOPIAN
  Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
• UTOPIANISM
  The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.
• PERFECTION
  1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an
• HUMANITIAN
  A humanist. B. Jonson.
• PERFECTIONMENT
  The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor.
• HUMANIZER
  One who renders humane.
• OPTIMISM
  The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good. 2. A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed
• HUMANATE
  Indued with humanity. Cranmer.
• HUMANNESS
  The quality or state of being human.
• HUMANICS
  The study of human nature. T. W. Collins.
• PERFECTIONATE
  To perfect. Dryden.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• TRANSHUMAN
  More than human; superhuman. Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.
• DEHUMANIZE
  To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.