humaniac tendency
- noun
- Her humaniac tendency drives her to volunteer every weekend.
Examples
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The organization sought volunteers with a humaniac tendency to lead their outreach programs.
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Her humaniac tendency led her to organize food drives for the less fortunate.
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Her humaniac tendency made her the first to help whenever disaster struck.
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Many people admired his humaniac tendency to always think of others' needs before his own.
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Many people have a strong humaniac tendency to help others.
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His humaniac tendency inspired him to donate regularly to charities that support children in need.
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The community values individuals with a humaniac tendency for their consistent support of local shelters.
Synonyms
Being kind and caring to other people
Caring about other people's needs more than your own
A belief that people should help others and reduce suffering
Antonyms
How Humanitarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
humaniac + tendency
The head 'humaniac' is not attested in dictionaries and is not a conventional English morpheme, so its relation to 'human' or any productive suffix is unclear; this makes the core lexical contribution unpredictable. Although 'tendency' is transparent, the unknown/neologistic first element prevents a B1 learner from reliably deriving the overall meaning, so the expression is opaque.
Etymology
Humaniac tendency may come from the picture of a person who is almost 'crazy' about people: the part humaniac looks like 'human' + 'maniac', giving a strong image of someone driven to help, and tendency shows it is a habit. So, it means 'an inclination to help others'.