(hy′mən·iz′əm) noun
1. Culture derived from classical training; polite learning.
2. A system of thinking in which man, his interests and development are made central and dominant, tending to exalt the cultural and practical rather than the scientific and speculative.
3. Humanity.

(hy′mən·iz′əm) noun
The intellectual, scientific, and literary movement of the 14th to 16th centuries which exalted Greek and Roman culture and learning: opposed to Scholasticism.