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humanities
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of humanity English) 2 the branch of learning that includes the arts, classics, philosophy and history etc., but not the sciences
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences" [syn: humanistic discipline , liberal arts , arts ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture. In the Middle Ages , the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics , the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humanities . [L. humanitas: cf. F. humanit['e]. See Human .] The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1702; plural of humanity , which was used in English from late 15c. in a sense "class of studies concerned with human culture" (opposed variously at different times to divinity or sciences). Latin literae humaniores , they were those branches of literature ...
Usage examples of humanities.
Within the ship, of course, sensors are calibrated to edit out the slight strangeness of the other-universal starlight, that all the humanities find so unsettling.
This was impossible and she knew it, for to the na'mdeihei, the physical world in which the humanities moved was a dream they could not touch.
Yet all the delicacy did not prevent the home of the humanities from burning fiercely in the dark.
Not one that any of our humanities would recognize as its own God, however.
In all the Universe he could think of nothing better to give, nothing more worth being remembered when he and all the humanities and the Galaxy itself were merely old stories.
I wanted to see if They really had that much divinity-or what the humanities take for divinity-in Them.
Indeed, such was his charismatic eloquence that many of the hundreds who entered Humanities 2 in September as philistines emerged by Christmas as passionate philhellenes.
As a reward he was made a teaching fellow in Finley's Humanities course.
The paisanos paid no attention to him until at last Jesus Maria, that prey to the humanities, untied Big Joe’s thumbs and gave him a jar of wine.
As it was, his string of D-minuses had led him here, to the sub-sub-basement of the Humanities Building.
Wondering if he truly had reached the Humanities building's lowest level, James glanced about, searching for another set of stairs leading still further into the earth.
He heaved it open, and stepped out into the quad in front of the Humanities building.
She smiled at him in the moonlight, as they passed between the shadows of the long, low administration Building on the north and the long, low humanities building on the south, and suddenly her face was transformed in a miracle of beauty.
When they left the humanities building, the students who had been facing the administration building when the light bomb exploded were beginning to regain their sight, and the machine gun in the administration building had started up again.
In the humanities, however, the crash is past, the depression has set in, and the collapse of science is all but complete.