to humanize
- verb
- /ˈhjuːmənaɪz/
- The documentary aims to humanize the struggles of people living in poverty.
- attempts to humanize
- humanized landscape
- humanized characters
But how can a brand become more humanized by having a mascot?
- But how can a brand become more humanized by having a mascot?
- I want to try to humanize these characters.
- You hear certain things and it humanizes people.
- But the point is that taking care of other people is part of what humanizes us.
- Ideally, we would have learned that as kids now, this video was meant to validate and humanize all of you.
- They are spending trillions of dollars humanizing robots and dehumanizing actual humans.
- And there's a way in which these drawings, these beautiful facsimiles humanize the artist to me in a way I really enjoy.
- Well, I think it, it, yes, it, it humanizes those or those players and it personalizes it in a way.
- Also humanizing my body has been a huge part of it.
- And that's I think where people need to humanize each other.
- So, so they they use we humanize mice developed by in the United States.
Examples
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The organizer's stated intent was to "humanize" the teenagers.
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Arts education must lead to this high ground as well, humanizing and civilizing us all.
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I want to try to humanize these characters.
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I would try and humanize him.
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These teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom.
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Her attitude, that of a concerned older sister, humanizes the character in an unexpected way.
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And there's a way in which these drawings, these beautiful facsimiles humanize the artist to me in a way I really enjoy.
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Sufi music, like many other cultural arts, is thus portrayed as humanizing.
Academic text (2008) -
The storyteller, however, strives always to humanize Deborah by noting points of connection that an audience may share.
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Situated at an inner-city taxi rank, the mural intends to upgrade and humanize this much-frequented, but exceptionally drab city space.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
Make a person or group more polite and socially aware
Antonyms
How Humane
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humanize comes from the part human, meaning 'person', and the ending -ize, meaning 'to make'. So, to humanize something is to 'make it human' — to give it kind, caring, or more humane qualities.