mankind

man·kind  (mnknd)

n.

1. The human race; humankind. See Usage Note at man.

2. Men as opposed to women.

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mankind [ˌmænˈkaɪnd]

n

1. human beings collectively; humanity

2. men collectively, as opposed to womankind

Usage: Some people object to the use of mankind to refer to all human beings and prefer the term humankind

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Mankind

See also anthropology;race;women.

agriology

the study of the customs of uncivilized people, usually on the com-parative level. — agriologist, n. — agriological, adj.

animalism

the theory that human beings lack a spiritual nature; animality. — animalist, n. — animalistic, adj.

anthropoglot

an animal with a tongue like that of man, as the parrot.

anthropography

the branch of anthropology that describes the varieties of mankind and their geographical distribution. — anthropographer, n. — an- thropographic, adj.

anthropoid

a creature resembling man, as an ape. — anthropoid, — anthropoidal, adj.

anthropology

the study of the origins, development, racial and social character, and beliefs of mankind. — anthropologist, n. — anthropological, adj.

anthroponomy

Rare. the branch of anthropology that studies the interrelation of the laws regulating human behavior and environment. Also anthroponomics. — anthroponomist, n. — anthroponomical, adj.

anthropophilic

of insects, attracted to human beings.

anthropophobia

an abnormal fear of people.

anthroposophy

a movement developed from theosophy by Rudolf Steiner, Austrian social philosopher, to develop the faculty of cognition and the awareness of spiritual reality, — anthroposophist, n. — anthroposophical, adj.

biotechnology

ergonomics. — biotechnologist, n. — biotechnologie, biotechnological, adj.

demography

the science of vital and social statistics, as of the deaths, births, marriages, etc., of populations. — demographer, n. — demographic, adj.

demology

the study of human activities and social conditions. — demological, adj.

demophobia

a hatred of people.

ergonomics

the study of the various factors affecting man in his working environment. Also called biotechnology. — ergonomic, adj.

ethnography

a branch of anthropology that studies and describes individual human cultures. — ethnographer, n. — ethnographic, ethnographical, adj.

ethology

the science proposed by John Stuart MUI for the study of the character formation in humans. — ethologic, ethological, adj.

folklore

the study of the traditions of a particular people in custom, song, story, belief, etc. — folklorist, n.

hominid

any of the two-legged primates, extinct or living, including man. — hominid, adj.

homunculus

1. a small man or midget.
2. the microcosmic human form formerly believed to be present in spermatozoon.

humanism

1. any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity are taken to be of primary importance, as in moral judgments.
2. a devotion to or study of the humanities.
3. a theory of the life of man as a responsible being behaving independently of a revelation or deity. Also called naturalistic, scientific, or philosophical humanism. — humanist, n. — humanistic, adj.

humanoid

1. a creature resembling man, as one of man’s early ancestors.
2. Science Fiction. any manlike creature from another planet. — humanoid, adj.

microcosmography

the figurative description of man as a miniature universe.

misanthropism, misanthropy

a hatred or distrust of all people. — misathrope, n. — misanthropic, adj.

monogenism

the theory that the entire human race is descended from a single ancestral pair. Also monogenesis, monogeny. — monogenist, n. — monogenistic, adj.

paleethnology, paleoethnology

the study of the races of early man. — paleethnologic, paleethnological, paleoethnological, adj. — paleethnologist, paleoethnologist, n.

paleoethnography

the ethnography of the prehistorie races of man.

philanthropism

1. an affection for mankind, especially as manifested in the devotion of work or wealth to persons or socially useful purposes.
2. activity revealing this affection. Also called philanthropy. — philanthropist, n. — philanthropic, philanthropical, adj.

sociology

1. the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society.
2. the science of fundamental laws of social behavior, relations, institutions, etc. — sociologist, n. — sociological, adj.

sociometry

the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection among members of a social grouping. — sociometrist, n. — sociometric, adj.

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Mankind 

See Also: HELPLESSNESS, LIFE, PEOPLE

1. As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of Him that made him —The Holy Bible/Apocrypha
2. Every man is like his affliction —André Malraux
3. Extraordinary men, like the stones that are formed in the highest regions of the air, fall upon the earth only to be broken and cast into the furnace —Walter Savage Landor
4. He [man] bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions … as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints —Herman Melville
5. Human as a kiss —Vance Thompson
6. Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life —Jean Giraudoux
7. Humanity is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling down the highway without lights on a dark night at terrific speed and driven by a four-year old —Lord Dunsany
8. It is with men as with horses; those who do the most prancing make the least progress —Baron de Stassart

   See Also: SUCCESS

9. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, now green in youth, now withering on the ground —Homer
10. Like the hours in the day, people come in two classes: the happy and the sad —Bin Ramke
11. Like the irresponsible black waterbugs on summer ponds, they [people in cities] crawl and circle and hustle about idiotically, without aim or purpose —O. Henry
12. Man … cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower —The Book of Common Prayer
13. Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman, a rope over an abyss —Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence —George Santayana
15. Man is like a ball tossed betwixt the wind and the billows —Friedrich von Schiller
16. A man is like a letter of the alphabet: to produce a word, it must combine with another —Benjamin Mandelstamm
17. A man is like all earth’s fruit, you preserve him dry or pickled —Hayden Carruth
18. Man is like a musical box. An imperceptible jolt, and he plays a different tune —Ludwig Boerne
19. Man is like a precious stone: cut and polished by morals, adorned by wisdom —Isaac Halevi Satanov
20. Mankind is like the Red Sea: the staff has scarcely parted the waves asunder, before they flow together again —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. A man like a watch is to be valued for his goings —Turkish proverb
22. Man’s like a bird all the days of his breath, and pleasures are nets that allure him to death —Judah Al-Harizi
23. Man’s like a candle in a candlestick made up tallow, and a little wick —John Bunyan
24. Men are like bricks, alike but placed high or low by chance —John Webster
25. Men are like ciphers: they acquire their value merely from their position —Napoleon Bonaparte
26. Men are like ears of corn: the emptier the head the more and the lower they stoop —Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
27. Men are like nuts; you can’t tell what they’re like till they’re broken —Phyllis Bottome

    This simile marks the opening of Bottome’s story, A Lost Leader.

28. Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow —Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
29. Men are like the herbs of the field; while some are sprouting, others are withering —Babylonian Talmud
30. Men are like strange dogs … walk right up to them, bold as life, and they’re as gentle as ducks —Owen Johnson
31. Men are like the stars: some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive —José Marti
32. Men are like trees … each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him —Henry Ward Beecher
33. Men are like weasels: weasels drag and lay up and know not for whom, and men save and hoard and know not for whom —Talmud
34. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
35. Others are to us like the ‘characters’ in fiction, eternal and incorrigible —Mary McCarthy
36. People are like planks of wood: soft until seasoned —St. John De Chevecoeur
37. People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness, wrapped like bulbs —Eudora Welty
38. People are somewhat like novels, we operate on beginnings, middles, and ends —Charles Johnson

    In Johnson’s novel, Faith and the Good Thing, the simile includes this parenthetical comment: “Don’t make too much of that simile.”

39. People are very much like flagstaffs. Some flagstaffs are very tall and prominent and some are small —Harry Emerson Fosdick

    Fosdick’s simile continued with the following observation: “But the glory of a flagstaff is not its size but the colors that it flies. A very small flagstaff flying the right colors is far more valuable than a very tall one with the wrong flag.”

40. The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes another decays —Homer
41. Some individuals are like a brush heap, a helter-skelter, miscellaneous pile of twigs and branches —Harry Emerson Fosdick
42. Some men are like Einstein’s theory of relativity; nobody at home understands them —Anon
43. Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky —Henry Ward Beecher
44. Some men are like rifles with plenty of powder but no bullet … a great flow of language but no thought —Sylvanys Stall

    See Also: TALKATIVENESS

45. So much of a man walks about dead … like a pianoforte with half the notes mute —D. H. Lawrence
46. Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind —Frank Harris, Reader’s Digest, June, 1936
47. The study of human nature is a good deal like the study of dissection: you find out a good many curious things, but it is a nasty job after all —Josh Billings

    Billings wrote this in dialect which read as follows: “The studdy ov huymin natur is a gooddeal like the studdy ov dessekshun, yu finde out a good menny curis things, aut it is nasty job after awl.”

48. To the gods we are as flies to wanton boys —William Shakespeare
49. We are all like vessels tossed on the bottom of the deep —Pietro Mestastasio

    The simile continues: “Our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously onward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole of life is a wide ocean.”

50. We are like sun that rises and sheds light upon things, and then falls and leaves them in darkness again —William Goyen
51. We run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep —Robert Louis Stevenson
52. What a piece of work is a man! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! —William Shakespeare

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mankind - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" human beings, human race, humankind, humans, humanity, world, man group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit human, human being, homo, man - any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

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mankind

noun people, man, humanity, human race, humankind, Homo sapiens the evolution of mankind

Quotations
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am" [Dr. Johnson]
"Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. Either instruct them, therefore, or endure them" [Marcus Aurelius Meditations]

Translations

mankind [mænˈkaɪnd] N → humanidad f, género m humano

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mankind [mænˈkaɪnd] n → humanité f

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mankind

n → die Menschheit

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mankind [mænˈkaɪnd] n → l'umanità f inv, il genere m umano

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mankind → بشرية lidstvo menneskeheden Menschheit ανθρωπότητα género humano ihmiskunta humanité ljudski rod umanità 人類 인류 mensheid menneskeheten rodzaj ludzki humanidade человечество mänskligheten มนุษยชาติ insanlık nhân loại 人类