humanities Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
    liberal arts; arts; humanistic discipline.
    • the college of arts and sciences
  2. noun the quality of being humane
    humanity.
  3. noun the quality of being human
    manhood; humanness; humanity.
    • he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
  4. noun all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    humans; human race; humankind; mankind; human beings; world; humanity; man.
    • all the world loves a lover
    • she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women

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