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n. - The quality of being a person

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  • Technology that fails to work or cooperate, or mocks one's humanness, is hard for me to take.
  • Our genome has some admixture from viruses, yet such gene transfer has never called our humanness into question.
  • So I thought, How do I bring that kind of humanness and a kind of humanity into playing a vampire?
  • Evidently his tersely told story of brotherly sacrifice has touched the "humanness" of that strangely-mixed audience.
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