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Definition of "humankind" []

  • The human race: "humankind's God-given creativity” ( New York Times). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "humankind" in a sentence
  • "Your faith in humankind is simply astonishing, redkittyred."
  • "In recent years, though, Thorneycroft has turned to black humour and contemporary mass culture as props to stage further investigations into what she calls humankind's hopeless attraction to "spectacles of violence.""
  • "Educating ourselves and our youths about the area that we may learn more and become successful to realize greater heights in humankind achievement rather than allowing interest in the world wane through inactivity certainly does this."