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mensch
( ''mentsh'', cognate with "human being") means "a person of integrity and honor."〔(Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary )〕 The opposite of a "" is an "" (meaning: an utterly unlikeable or unfriendly person). According to Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of ''The Joys of Yiddish'', "" is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous."〔(How to Be a Mensch )〕 The term is used as a high compliment, expressing the rarity and value of that individual's qualities.
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In Yiddish, ''mentsh'' roughly means "a good person." The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a ''mensch'' is a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. ''Mentshlekhkeyt'' (Yiddish מענטשלעכקייט, German ') are the properties which make a person a ''mensch''.
During the Age of Enlightenment in Germany the term ', in the philosophical sense of compassion, was used to describe what characterizes a "better human being" in Humanism. The concept goes back to Cicero's ''Humanitas.'' It was literally translated into the German word ' and then adapted as ''mentsh'' in Yiddish use.
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