Definition of humanity:

• Classical learning.
• the quality of being human; " he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"
• Mankind collectively; the human race.
• The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
• Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
• The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles- letters.
• The nature peculiar to a human being: the kind feelings of man: benevolence: tenderness: mankind collectively:- pl. HUMANITIES, in Scotland, grammar, rhetoric, Latin, Greek, and poetry, so called from their humanizing effects: the preparatory course in Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries and some other institutions of learning.
• Nature of a human being; mankind; benevolence; mercy.
• Mankind collectively.
• The state of being humane; a humane act.
• The nature peculiar to man; mankind; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; benevolence; classical learning; classical literature; in Scotland, Latin. The humanities, grammar, rhetoric, the Latin and Greek languages, and poetry.
• The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man; the human race; benevolence; mental cultivation befitting man; in Scot., one of the humanities- Latin, Greek, rhetoric, poetry, grammatical studies.

Usage examples for humanity

1. It makes no difference which army the post belongs to, for this is a matter of humanity.  My Lady of the North by Randall Parrish

2. Your humanity shall not cost you so dear.  Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

3. But humanity does want something.  Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

4. This is the condition of humanity.  Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope by Lord Bolingbroke