humanities (root: humanity)

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Noun humanities has 1 sense

humanities(n = noun.cognition) arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"

is a kind of bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field

has particulars: neoclassicism, classicalism, classicism, romantic movement, romanticism, english, history, art history, chronology, beaux arts, fine arts, performing arts, occidentalism, oriental studies, orientalism, philosophy, literary study, library science, linguistics, philology, musicology, sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, trivium, quadrivium

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humanities

academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, discipline, elective, field, general education, general studies, liberal arts, major, minor, proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education, seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, technical education, trivium

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humanities

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

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