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Humankind

Mankind.

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Human 76% connected

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human sha…

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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People 70% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Humanity 92% connected

The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

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Man 92% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Mankind 92% connected

The human race; man, taken collectively.

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World 92% connected

The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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