Synonyms for humanize
ˈhyu məˌnaɪz; often ˈyu-hu·man·ize

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1. humanize

   Synonyms:
   civilize, ameliorate, enlighten, christianise, refine

   Antonyms:
   barbarize, degrade, debase, depress, brutalize

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1. humanize, humaniseverb

   make more humane

   "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"

   Synonyms:
   humanise

   Antonyms:
   dehumanize, dehumanise

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1. personification

   to humanize is to make something friendlier to humans.

   they promised to humanize conditions at the company.

   Submitted by rinat on December 2, 2015  

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1. humanizeverb

   Synonyms:
   soften, make humane

2. humanizeverb

   Synonyms:
   civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, educate, reclaim from barbarism

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1. List of paraphrases for "humanize":

   humanise

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1. Christopher Dearborn:

   They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.

2. Thomas Husson:

   The marketing rhetoric around the Neons is quite extreme at a time when AI generates lots of confusion and anxiety [ with topics such as ] humans replacing machines, AI ethics issues and deep fakes, but if they're able to successfully express emotions, they would help enhance interactions between consumers and brands, and more broadly humanize technology.

3. Adam Waytz:

   In general, humans care about other humans, so when we humanize something inanimate, it makes us care about the thing more, naming things can make them more memorable, easier to recall, and certainly it makes things feel more fluent or easy to process. Given that work shows that easily processed information takes on outsized importance in our minds, it is likely that naming things can give them importance as well.

4. Vivek Shah:

   Here, you humanize the conversation ... you understand that this is a problem that happens to people around you, you begin to have this sense of, if something were to happen to me, I have people around me who wouldn't just stand by and would know what to do.

5. Christopher Dearborn:

   I think the real value in that may be to start to try to generate even a little bit of empathy around this and humanize the kid a little bit, hopefully enough to save a life.