humanness

Noun

1. The condition or quality of being human.
   • Too often, children become an "it" in their homes and their humanness is devalued. - 1995, Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence, page 8:
   • Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point. - 2010 November 20, “Crossing the uncanny valley”, in The Economist:
   • These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of...