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- HUMANUS
- L. human being
- humane
- adj. having the worthy qualities of human beings, such as kindness or compassion
- humanism
- n. a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance
- humanities
- n. branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture: philosophy, literature, and the fine arts, as distinguished from the sciences
- anthropology
- n. the scientific study of the origins, cultural development and customs of human beings.
- misanthrope
- n. a person who hates all people
- ANTHROPOS
- G. human being, man
- HOMO, HOMINIS
- L. man
- homicide
- n. the killing of one person by another; a person who kills another
- VIR
- L. man
- virile
- adj. having certain characteristics popularly associate with men, especially physical strength, procreative power, vitality, and assertiveness
- GYNE
- G. woman
- gynecology
- n. the branch of medicine dealing with disease of the reproductive system in women
- FEMINA
- L. woman
- feminism
- n. the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men
- feminist
- n. a supporter of women's claims to the same rights and treatment as men
- AUTOS
- G. self
- automaton
- n. a person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner; a robot
- autopsy
- n. the examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death
- EGO
- L. I
- egoism
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n. conceit; valuing everything according to one's personal interest; excessive confidence in the rightness of one's own opinion. (In ethics, egoism is the belief in self-love as a proper motive for human conduct; in psychology, ego means "the self," the part of the mind concerned with the outside world.)
Egotism (different word) can mean boastfulness and or selfishness