humanism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hu=man=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

humanism, n. 

•  Human nature or disposition; humanity.  [1913 Webster]

  "[She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism."  [1913 Webster]
•  The study of the humanities; polite learning.  [1913 Webster]
•  A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

humanism, n.
1 an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
2 a belief or outlook emphasizing common human needs and seeking solely rational ways of solving human problems, and concerned with mankind as responsible and progressive intellectual beings.
3 (often Humanism) literary culture, esp. that of the Renaissance humanists.

THESAURUS

humanism

Christian humanism, Religious Humanism, anthroposophy, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, free thought, freethinking, humanistic scholarship, integral humanism, intellectualism, intellectuality, latitudinarianism, learnedness, letters, literacy, naturalistic humanism, new humanism, pedantism, pedantry, reading, scholarship, secular humanism