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Definition: Humanist |
HumanistAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism; "the humanistic revival of learning". 2. 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. 3. Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education". 4. 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". Noun1. A classical scholar or student of the liberal arts. 2. An advocate of the principles of humanism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "humanist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Humanist \Hu"man*ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression humaniste.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Humanism or Renaissance humanism is the cultural movement in Europe during the Middle Ages and the renaissance, that revived the language (in particular the Greek language), science and poetry of classical antiquity (mainly Ancient Greece).To a certain extent, this could include an orientation toward antique value systems and deviation from the prevailing Christian doctrine. From this comes the second meaning of the word.
A person primarily studying languages related to classical antiquity, such as Greek or Latin, and the art, literature and poetry of this epoch may sometimes be called a humanist and the main area of concern for these people is then referred to as humanities.
Humanism -- the Humanist Doctrine
Humanism is a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values, stressing an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason and other human skills. It usually rejects supernaturalism, but some religious people consider themselves humanists.
See also: Rationalist, Universism, Secular humanism, Religious (spiritual) humanism, New Humanism, Transhumanism
List of Humanists
- Erasmus
- Julius Caesar Scaliger
- Michel de Montaigne
External links
- http://www.jcn.com/humanism.html
- International Humanist and Ethical Union
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Humanism."
Synonyms: HumanistSynonyms: human-centered (adj), humane (adj), humanistic (adj), humanitarian (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Humanist |
| English words defined with "humanist": humanistic, Humanitian ♦ philologist, philologue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "humanist": social geography. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "humanist": Humanitian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Humanist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (humanist), Dutch (humanist), German (classicist, humanist), Serbo-Croatian (humanist), Swedish (humanist). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Norway | The Norwegian Humanist Association contested the teaching of this class in the courts on the grounds that it is a breach of freedom of religion and parents' right to make choices for their children. (references) |
Economic History | Romania | Political parties: Political parties represented in the Parliament are the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party (PNL); the Democratic Party (PD); the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR); the Greater Romania Party (PRM). Other political parties include National Democratic Christian Peasant Party, Alliance for Romania Party (APR), the Union of Right Wing Forces (UFD), the Romanian Humanist Party (PUR), the Party of the Romanian National Unity (PUNR), as well as political organizations of minorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Humanist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.38% of the time. "Humanist" is used about 191 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.38% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 191 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "humanist": University for Humanist Studies. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "humanist": anti-humanist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "humanist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | humanist, studjues i shkencave humane. (various references) | |
Arabic | إنسان متحضر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хуманист. (various references) | |
Chinese | 人"主义者. (various references) | |
Czech | humanista. (various references) | |
Dutch | humanist. (various references) | |
Esperanto | humanisto. (various references) | |
French | humaniste (humanistic). (various references) | |
German | humanist (classicist). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθρωπιστήσ (humane), ουμανιστήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א ושאי, "ומ יסט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | humanista. (various references) | |
Italian | umanista. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'ドロ シ類 (CHI, close call, fuse, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hut, hydrozoan, hypochondria, interview, listening comprehension, near miss, public hearing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | 'ューマニスト . (various references) | |
Korean | 인본주의자. (various references) | |
Manx | sheelnaueder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umanisthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | humanista (classic, scholar). (various references) | |
Romanian | humanistic, umanist (scholar). (various references) | |
Russian | гуманист (humanitarian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | humanistički, humanist. (various references) | |
Spanish | humanista (classical scholar). (various references) | |
Swedish | humanist. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ศึกษาเกี่ยวกับมนุษย์. (various references) | |
Turkish | hümanist (classical, classical scholar, humane), yardımsever (benevolent, caring, charitable, friendly, gracious, helpful, humanitarian, kind, kindly, obliging, public-spirited, well disposed), insancıl (humane, humanistic, humanitarian, philanthropic, philanthropical, philanthropist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гуманіст (humanitarian). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh nghiên cứu khoa học nhân văn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "humanist": humanistic, humanistically, humanists. (additional references) | |
Words containing "humanist": antihumanistic. (additional references) | |
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"Humanist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hahanit, haymanot, Huamani, humaines, humanis, Humanista, humanite, humanus, jumani, luminist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "humanist" (pronounced hyuw"muni'st) |
| 5 | -u n i' s t | constructionist, expansionist, percussionist, perfectionist, religionist, revisionist, satanist. |
| 4 | -n i' s t | saxophonist, trombonist. |
| 3 | -i' s t | absurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, baptist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, realist, recidivist, reformist, revivalist, royalist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, typist, vaguest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: manitus, tsunami. | |
-2 letters: animus, autism, haunts, hiatus, humans, manitu, mantis, matins, shanti, unhats. | |
-3 letters: amins, antis, aunts, hants, haunt, hints, human, hunts, mains, maist, manus, maths, matin, mauts, minas, mints, minus, munis, musth, saint, saith, satin, shunt, smith, snath, stain, suint, tains, tamis, thins, tunas, unais, unhat, units. | |
-4 letters: aims, ains, aits, amin, amis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: humanists. | |
+2 letters: anthuriums, enthusiasm, humanistic, humanities, outshaming, thumbnails. | |
+3 letters: enthusiasms, exhumations, inhumations. | |
+4 letters: antihumanism, antirrhinums, euchromatins, humiliations, inhumanities, languishment, thingumajigs. | |
+5 letters: antihumanisms, cinematheques, diathermanous, humanitarians, humanizations, humifications, languishments, multichannels, superhumanity, uncharismatic, unsympathetic. | |
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