Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of humanizing, or the state of being humanized; a making human or humane; assimilation to humanity. Also spelled
humanisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of humanizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
humanizing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making more human
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Examples
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But if humanization is our ideal and our aspiration, we must note that education as dehumanization is too often both policy and practice.
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But if humanization is our ideal and our aspiration, we must note that education as dehumanization is too often both policy and practice.
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Their inquiries under the caring guidance of the teacher-librarian are searches for Freire's "humanization," as well as re-created realities and social transformation.
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Their inquiries under the caring guidance of the teacher-librarian are searches for Freire's "humanization," as well as re-created realities and social transformation.
October 2008 2008
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Maybe Patti Solis-Doyle's "humanization" could have worked if fully committed to.
The Hillary Campaign Memos: Fury Over Leaks, A Belated Push On Florida 2009
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Now, with the host of their "Breakfast Television" show expecting her baby and growing larger every day, we are seeing a "humanization" of the "fetus" as we have never seen before on this particular television station.
Toronto City TV Goes Pro-Life - Unintentionally Suzanne 2006
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Having concluded this, Gorbachev was faced with a difficult task of selling the "humanization" of Soviet international relations, including phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from key European locations, to the politburo.
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I like that phrase "humanization" better than the phrase "socialization", because the latter seems to conjure up the bogie of Marx and Socialism, and what I am thinking about is that not any particular economic system is really a cure for our complex economic ills.
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However here, the important caveat is that this conception of the social does not amount to a "humanization" of the natural, but rather an expansion of the social beyond the human.
Larval Subjects . 2010
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State Duma deputies and President Dmitry Medvedev started using the word "humanization" a lot.
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