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humanist

humanist

23 5.4
A person who believes people have worth and should use reason and kindness
  • noun
  • /ˈhjuːmənɪst/
translation icon : humanista
  • As a passionate humanist, she believes in promoting the dignity and rights of all individuals.
  • secular humanists
  • editor of The Humanist
  • Humanists believe

Communists and trade unionists who, who inadvertently helped the humanists to power.

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Examples

  • Some social scientists and most humanists bring quite different expectations to the degree.

    Academic text (1990)
  • While social scientists initially dominated this area of study, humanists quickly jumped on the bandwagon.

    Academic text (1995)
  • I think that Dick is much more of a humanist in that respect.

  • In a sense, I feel more like a humanist.

  • They're not what you would call a humanist, right?

  • Computers, however, have been bringing humanists together, and that can only be a good thing.

    Academic text (2017)
  • But this shows that even humanists may face a philosophical crisis in the next century.

    Academic text (1999)
  • It's important to involve humanists and social scientists on this campus and beyond to study this.

  • I am an atheist, humanist and the director of a local secular community, Sunday Assembly, Los Angeles.

  • And secular humanists are by all means secular humanists, not religionists in disguise.

    Academic text (1991)

Antonyms

antihumanist
  • Formal
9.8

A person who rejects the idea that people are the most important

How Hostile

antihuman
  • Offensive
9.9
misanthrope
6 9.9
humanist
23 5.4

Surface Forms

humanist singular
humanists plural

Morphology

humanist = human (transparent) = human + ist

Clearly a person-denoting suffix '-ist' attached to 'human' (or conceptually to 'humanism'), yielding 'a person who supports or practices humanism'.

Etymology

Humanist comes from Latin humanus 'human' and points to the value and ability of people. So a humanist today is someone who supports human worth, reason, and human-centred ideas like rights and dignity.