unhumanity
unhumanity noun: the quality of being other than human.
Noun
unhumanity (uncountable)
- The quality of being other than human.
- We see, too, that the disaster of which the world actually stood in imminent deadly peril has been averted, and that if every pound of saltpetre in the mines of Chili were suddenly to dissolve into its elements, the human race would still be able to guard itself against the unhumanity of nature.1907, Robert Kennedy Duncan, The chemistry of commerce
- This one's unhumanity was mostly concealed by his hotsuit, until he moved legs that were hinged the wrong way -- birdlike.2004, Neal Asher, The Line of Polity, →ISBN
- Lack of humaneness; inhumanity.
- Instead of conflict there is murder and massacre — relics of brute savagery and man's unhumanity.1894, Sanda, Appointed: An American Novel, page 299
- McConnell's evidence for this controversial interpretation seems to be based mainly on a consciousness of an unhumanity which the final triumph of impersonal perception implies. As more positive proof of this unhumanity, he refers to the death among the trees — the figure of a man with his throat...1978, Laxmi Parasuram, Virginia Woolf: The Emerging Reality, page 151
Examples of unhumanity in a sentence
- Smith's nostrils quivered to that scent of unhumanity.2011, C.L. Moore, Northwest of Earth, →ISBN:
- McConnell's evidence for this controversial interpretation seems to be based mainly on a consciousness of an unhumanity which the final triumph of impersonal perception implies.1978, Laxmi Parasuram, Virginia Woolf: The Emerging Reality, page 151:
- Was it any wonder that their habitual indifference to suffering gave way, and the soldiers cursed loud and deep at a causeless unhumanity, which, if practiced habitually, is worse than savage!2003, Walter Sullivan, The War the Women Lived, →ISBN:
Origin of unhumanity
From un- + humanity.
Questions about unhumanity
- What does unhumanity mean?
- Unhumanity means the quality of being other than human.
- How do you use unhumanity in a sentence?
- Smith's nostrils quivered to that scent of unhumanity.
- What part of speech is unhumanity?
- Unhumanity is a noun.
Words near unhumanity in the dictionary
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