What is "humanness"

Usage examples of "humanness".

The scale of such vistas so great that their sense of themselves, the plain humanness aggrandizing every puny ego, lost its turgor, its shape, a goodly portion of its size.

Although it was not identical to his own, he sensed a reaching out from her alienness to his humanness.

The customary essences of neroli, eucalyptus and cypress were meant only as a cover for the actual scent that he intended to produce: that was the scent of humanness.

For years he had ferried alien pilgrims between Gutshot and End of Nothing, and all the time, out of his loneliness that cried out for humanness, his contempt and horror of his passengers had grown until it now was tightly woven into the fabric of his life.

They are hairy and chimplike in dimensions, but have a bearing and gait that suggest humanness.

When arranged in sequence, they show males and females evolving at different rates and in different directions—the males becoming less apelike and more human with time, while females from the same period appear to be moving away from humanness toward greater apeness.

Her mouth was distorted and swollen with the froggy humanness shared by the creature from the black lagoon and scuba divers with their mouthpieces in place.