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HUMANITY
Definition of HUMANITY
noun
Humankind; human beings as a group.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye, from Old French humanité, from Latin hūmānitās. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HUMANITY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUMANITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 135 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HUMANITY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AHIMNTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HUMANI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found HUMANITY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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