humaneness

1. 1.

   the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)

   Antonymsinhumaneness

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerhumanitymercifulness

   animal

Other forms of humaneness

plural

humanenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about humaneness

What does humaneness mean?

humaneness means "the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)".

How many syllables are in humaneness?

humaneness has 4 syllables: hu-ma-ne-ness. The stress falls on "ma".

What is the opposite of humaneness?

The recorded antonyms are inhumaneness.

Is humaneness a common word?

humaneness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.