humanistic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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; - Wendell Thomas
adjective of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
adjective pertaining to or concerned with the humanities

From humanist + -ic.

How could the humanistic emotions, such as pity, justice, sympathy, exist save as pacifistic quietings of the desire to slay, to hurt, to torment. — Lysistrata, Aristophanes
But these are the faults of youth, and are unimportant compared with the profoundly humanistic attitude to life which is formed in the students. — The Problem of China, Bertrand Russell
Footnote 378: Of course it was the revival of learning, the humanistic spirit, dividing lay society into lettered and unlettered, which really broke up the communal ballad. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

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