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humanistic

[ US /ˌhjuməˈnɪstɪk/ ]
[ UK /hjˌuːmɐnˈɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
    released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons
    respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species
    a humane physician
  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
  3. of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
    the humanistic revival of learning
  4. pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
    a humane education
    humanistic studies

How To Use humanistic In A Sentence

  • The freedom of man is perhaps the humanistic psychology's basic argument.
  • Already we can see how such advances have brought about a watershed in conjectural modeling in humanistic fields such as art conservation. Introduction
  • As I view our world from the holistic, biocentric viewpoint, rather than the common homocentric (arrogant humanistic) viewpoint, I can think only of the literal millions of lives being sacrificed in the Orwellian madness of the Bush wars and upon our cruel, unyielding roadways at home in terms of being an ecological disaster as well as a human one. 21st Century Roadkill
  • This painstakingly detailed docudrama, which won the grand prize at the Berlin film festival, commands some attention and respect; I just can't go along with its antihumanistic attack on antihumanism. Chicago Reader
  • In its early stages the literary and humanistic preoccupations and the conviction of the vast superi - ority of antiquity to anything offered by the medievals no doubt led to the neglect of some interesting medie - val inquiries e.g., those into “uniform difform” (uni - formly accelerated) motions just as the logical, cosmo - logical, and theological preoccupations of the thirteenth century had probably retarded a literary renascence. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • the figurative art of the humanistic tradition
  • Editors should be scientific in their methodology and humanistic in its application.
  • the humanistic revival of learning
  • It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of the individual from any higher force above him. Archive 2008-08-01
  • The book may be perceived as humanistic in some quarters.
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