humanwise

humanwise

English

Alternative forms

• human-wise

Etymology

From human +‎ -wise.

Adverb

humanwise (comparative more humanwise, superlative most humanwise)

1. In a humanly order, manner, or fashion; in a way typical of humans
   • 1898, The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art:

     We ourselves, like the savage, necessarily speak of God and imagine Him humanwise,—[...]

   • 1966, The Tetons: Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape:

     There is apparent everywhere an orderliness which we, humanwise, find suggestive of man's design, a conscious adherence to an architectural plan utilizing throughout the same long, parallel, west-slanting lines —[...]

   • 2014, A. J. Cotnoir, ‎Donald L. M. Baxter, Composition as Identity:

     In his view, there are no such things; there are just particles arranged humanwise.

   • 2015, Christopher Hughes, Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God:

     By contrast, a human being is one simpliciter, and not just one secundum quid, because, although a heap of stones is many stones arranged heapwise, a human being is not many organs or many cells or many atoms arranged humanwise.