HOMINEITY NOUN the essential quality of mankind; that which constitutes man ...1660 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin homo, homin-em (man), after deity FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1660 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...inasmuch as they participate of the Idea of Greatness or Littleness, &c, The like of Man himself, for many individual Men are such by participation of the Idea of Man, (as if we should say Homineity) which hath a permanent Subsistence, whereas particular Men are in perpetual Fluxion and Mutation..." From: The History of Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of Every Sect - Thomas Stanley
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