"ascription of human feelings to divine beings," 1640s, from Greek anthrōpopatheia "humanity," literally "human feeling," from anthrōpos "man, human" (see anthropo-) + -patheia, combining form of pathos "suffering, disease, feeling" (from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer"). Related: Anthropopathic; anthropopathite; anthropopathically.

"aversion to human company, love of solitude," 1753, nativized form of Greek apanthrōpia, abstract noun from apanthrōpos "unsocial," from assimilated form of apo "off, away from" (see apo-) + anthrōpos "man, human" (see anthropo-). Related: Apanthropic.

1520s, "mortal thing or substance;" 1560s, "a human being" (as subject to death); from mortal (adj.). Latin mortalis also was used as a noun, "a man, mortal, human being."

1905, as a human condition, from hirsute + -ism.

the genus of human beings, 1802, in William Turton's translation of Linnæus, coined in Modern Latin from Latin homo "man" (technically "male human," but in logical and scholastic writing "human being;" see homunculus) + sapiens, present participle of sapere "be wise" (see sapient).

Homo as the genus of the human race, within the order Primates, was formally instituted in Modern Latin 1758 by Linnaeus (originally also including chimpanzees). Used since in various Latin or pseudo-Latin combinations intended to emphasize some aspect of humanity, as in Henri Bergson's Homo faber "man the tool-maker" (in "L'Evolution Créatrice", 1907).

"the teaching or doctrine that Jesus was entirely human," 1817 (Coleridge; "Biographia Literaria"), from Greek psilanthrōpos "merely human," from psilos "naked, bare, mere" (see psilo-) + anthrōpos "man" (see anthropo-). Related: Psilanthropy; psilanthropic; psilanthropist.

"canine tooth of a human," late 14c., from dog (n.) + tooth.

"of human shape," 1670s, from stem of Latin homo (see homunculus) + -form.

also apeman, hypothetical "missing link" between the highest anthropoid apes and human beings, progenitor of the human race, 1869, in a translation of Haeckel, from ape (n.) + man (n.). Man-ape is attested from 1823 as "anthropoid ape, orangutan." The name Martin Halfape appears in an English roll from 1227.

Latin phrase from Swift's epitaph; "savage indignation;" an intense feeling of contemptuous anger at human folly.