humanistic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English humanist

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English humanistic

From humanist + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhjuːməˈnɪ.stɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

humanistic (comparative more humanistic, superlative most humanistic)

1. Of or pertaining to humanism.
   • 1985, J. G. Thirlwell, “Descent into the Inferno”, in Nail, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:

     I recognize thee, Satan, and I spit in thine face
     Whatever happened to the human race?
     What happened to the humanistic faith?
     What happens to human waste?

   • 2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Steve Jobs, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” Apple is a humanistic tech company. It’s also the largest company in the world.

Derived terms

• antihumanistic
• humanistically
• neohumanistic
• nonhumanistic
• sociohumanistic
• unhumanistic

Translations

of or pertaining to humanism

• Asturian: humanísticu
• Belarusian: гуманісты́чны (humanistýčny)
• Catalan: humanístic
• Czech: humanistický
• Danish: humanistisk
• Dutch: humanistisch (nl)
• Finnish: humanistinen (fi)
• Galician: humanístico
• Georgian: ჰუმანისტური (humanisṭuri)
• German: humanistisch (de)
• Greek: ανθρωπιστικός (el) (anthropistikós)
• Hungarian: humanisztikus (hu)
• Italian: umanistico (it)
• Kazakh: гуманистік (güwmanıystik)
• Latvian: humānistisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humanistisk

  Nynorsk: humanistisk

• Polish: humanistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: humanístico
• Russian: гуманисти́ческий (ru) (gumanistíčeskij)
• Spanish: humanístico
• Swedish: humanistisk (sv)
• Tagalog: makaturuangtao
• Ukrainian: гуманісти́чний (humanistýčnyj)