humanities

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/

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Noun

humanities

1. plural of humanity

Noun

humanities pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.
2. The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) belles-lettres, (mainly India) arts; see also Thesaurus:humanities

   • 2021 August 17, Artemis Moshtaghian, “Church made famous by Paul Revere reckons with its ties to slavery”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Old Church is one of nearly 240 recipients of grants awarded by NEH for humanities projects in support of the preservation of historic collections, humanities documentaries and exhibitions, scholarly books and research, and educational opportunities for teachers, according to the agency’s website.

Derived terms

• digital humanities

Related terms

• humanism
• humanist
• humanistic
• humanity

Translations

classical studies — see classical studies

language, literature, etc.

• Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya)
• Catalan: humanitats (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人文科學 / 人文科学 (zh) (rénwén kēxué)

• Danish: humaniora c
• Dutch: geesteswetenschappen (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: homa scienco
• Estonian: humanitaarained, humaniora
• Faroese: hugvísindi n pl
• Finnish: humanismi (fi)
• French: sciences humaines (fr) f pl
• German: Geisteswissenschaften (de) f pl, Humanwissenschaften (de) pl
• Greek: ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες f pl (anthropistikés epistímes), θεωρητικές επιστήμες f pl (theoritikés epistímes)
• Hungarian: humán tárgyak
• Icelandic: hugvísindi n pl
• Indonesian: humaniora (id)
• Italian: scienze umanistiche (it) f pl
• Japanese: 人文科学 (ja) (jinbun kagaku), 人文学 (jinbungaku)
• Korean: 인문학 (ko) (inmunhak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humaniora

  Nynorsk: humaniora

• Polish: humanistyka (pl) f, nauki humanistyczne (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: humanas (pt) f pl
• Romanian: umanioare f pl
• Russian: гуманита́рные нау́ки f pl (gumanitárnyje naúki)
• Slovak: spoločenské vedy f pl
• Spanish: humanidades (es) f pl
• Swedish: humaniora (sv) c
• Tagalog: katuruang-tao
• Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (th) (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat)
• Turkish: beşerî bilimler
• Vietnamese: khoa học nhân văn

Further reading

• humanities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “humanities”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “humanities”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “humanities”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• "humanities" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• humanities, encyclopedia.com
• Humanities Portal, britannica.com