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; see also Thesaurus:humanities

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