noun

• (uncountable) Humankind; human beings as a group.
  "Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all."
• (uncountable) The human condition or nature.
• (uncountable) The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
  "Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!"
• (countable) Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
  "Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science."