as in kindness
sympathetic concern for the well-being of others
with more humaneness than good sense, I decided to take in yet another stray cat
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Noun
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Having a solid structure in place can allow kindness to thrive without compromising the performance of your team or operations.—
Roxana Diaconu,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Your loving kindness stays with me.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Then Danielle and Michèle dance, with a casual tenderness belying how charged the moment is for Michèle.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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The scene is a familiar one in these kinds of tales of regression, but Apatow imbues it with a tenderness.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Humaneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humaneness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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