humanities
- noun
- /hjuːˈmænɪtiz/
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humanidades
- Many students choose to major in humanities to explore human culture and society.
Will the candidates from the School of Humanities and Sciences please stand?
- Will the candidates from the School of Humanities and Sciences please stand?
- Will the graduates from the School of Humanities and Sciences please be seated?
- It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us.
- We are watching as public support for the arts and humanities is increasingly contested.
- All the bad talk you hear about the humanities in universities.
- But English, history, the humanities, all that stuff.
- And I studied much more what what I call the humanities.
- There is today a natural mix of humanities and technology, high art and messy IT.
- I refuse to give over the discipline of classics to the the humanities people.
- He said science done right is one of the humanities.
Examples
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I'm the faculty director for the humanities at the Radcliffe Institute.
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And in the humanities at Stanford, they expected you to write a book to get tenure.
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So this is a rather unique digital humanities project.
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But English, history, the humanities, all that stuff.
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And I think it's a model for both history and the humanities in general.
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All the bad talk you hear about the humanities in universities.
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There is today a natural mix of humanities and technology, high art and messy IT.
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us.
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And in the humanities, what we find is escapism.
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The study of literature, philosophy, and history falls under the field of humanities.
Synonyms
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3.7
College or university studies that teach broad knowledge and thinking skills across subjects like literature and history
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3.0
Subjects taught at university that focus on knowledge and thinking skills like history and languages
Compounds
- Specialized
An honorary university degree given for important work in subjects like history or literature
How Specialized
- Specialized
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8.5
2
5.8
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6.5
- Specialized
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3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humanities comes from the Latin humanus, which means 'human' or 'kind', and you can see the same root in human and humane. So humanities are the subjects that study people, their culture, and how we live.