humanist

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I'm a humanist, and it has made my worldview much, much brighter.

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a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

noun

an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans

adjective

of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for humanist.

noun

a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

noun

an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans

adjective

of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning"

adjective

of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas

adjective

pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"

adjective

marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"

Example sentences

I'm a humanist, and it has made my worldview much, much brighter.

Kudos to CloudFlare for expressing a human voice, and a humanist response.

You know, I just don't think a humanist sans with a lot of character is the right choice for an operating system.

If someone sticks out their neck someday for you, risking it all, will you perhaps be capable of a humanist thought then?

The humanist tradition of education is rich kids hanging out with scholars.

A humanist sans serif like this new Mozilla typeface is much better for general purpose use.

At an AHA memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists.

It seems there's a bit of a fad of people using humanist serifs on minimal websites about technical topics.

This is incredible storytelling and is very humanist.

We're almost on the verge of a technological/humanistic revolution in which everything will be changeable.

But I'll say this, the Christian relationship with money and with power is strange and counterintuitive, and the numbers don't generally add up the way a humanist would want them to.

From a humanist perspective, it's unfair because you are taking more risk with every job you take-- you're risking your career and health, they're just risking money, which they have in abundance-- but that's how the game works.

" Languages are tools for communication, and while it's sad from an anthropological/historical perspective to be losing languages, from a humanist perspective it's fantastic news.