humankind

humankind

English

Etymology

From human +‎ -kind.

Noun

humankind (usually uncountable, plural humankinds)

1. The human race; mankind, humanity; Homo sapiens.

Usage notes

• "Mankind" is more common than "humankind", but "humanity" is more common than both of them combined, according to Google N-grams.

Synonyms

• the human race
• mankind
• humanity
• Homo sapiens
• See also Thesaurus:humankind

Translations

human race — see mankind

mankind; humanity — see human race

the human race

Bashkir: кешелек (kešelek) Belarusian: чалаве́цтва n (čalavjéctva) Bulgarian: чове́чество n (čovéčestvo) Burmese: လူသား (my) (lusa:) Chinese: Mandarin: 人類 (zh), 人类 (zh) (rénlèi) Czech: lidstvo (cs) n Dutch: mensheid (nl) f, mensdom (nl) n Finnish: ihmiskunta (fi) French: humanité (fr) f, genre humain (fr) Georgian: კაცობრიობა (ḳacobrioba), ადამიანთა მოდგმა (adamianta modgma) German: Menschheit (de) f Hindi: मानवता (hi) f (mānavtā) Japanese: 人類 (ja) (jinrui)

Korean: 인류 (ko) (illyu) Latvian: cilvēce f Macedonian: чо́вештво n (čóveštvo) Portuguese: humanidade (pt) f Russian: челове́чество (ru) n (čelovéčestvo) Slovak: ľudstvo n Slovene: človeštvo (sl) n Spanish: humanidad (es) f, género humano f, raza humana f Swedish: människosläkt c, mänsklighet (sv) c (used only in the definite form) Telugu: నరులు (te) (narulu) Turkish: kişioğlu (tr) Ukrainian: лю́дство n (ljúdstvo) Vietnamese: loài người (vi), nhân loại (vi) Zulu: isintu (zu) class 7/8