🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

인본주의자

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in-bon-ju-ui-ja

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Humanist/ˈhjuː.mən.ɪst/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 평생을 살아온 인본주의자였다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who adheres to humanism, an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

    "As an outspoken humanist, she believed that morality stems from empathy and human reason alone."
  2. 2

    A scholar of the Renaissance humanities or a cultural movement emphasizing classical learning.

    "The 15th-century humanist translated ancient Greek texts to revive classical philosophy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Italian umanista, based on the Latin humanus meaning 'human' or 'cultured'. It originally referred to Renaissance scholars who taught the humanities, later evolving in the 19th and 20th centuries to describe a worldview centered on human agency, reason, and secular ethics rather than religious dogma.

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