humanities

Noun
  1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) (synset 106163352)
    "the college of arts and sciences"
    is a type of: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field - a branch of knowledge
    subtypes:
    • neoclassicism - revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
    • classicalism, classicism - a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
    • romantic movement, romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
    • interior design - the art of designing the interior decoration for a house, office, or other architectural space
    • english - the discipline that studies the English language and literature
    • history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
    • art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture
    • chronology - the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events
    • beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
    • performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance
    • occidentalism - the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people
    • oriental studies, orientalism - the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people
    • philosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
    • literary study - the humanistic study of literature
    • library science - the study of the principles and practices of library administration
    • linguistics, philology - the humanistic study of language and literature
    • musicology - the scholarly and scientific study of music
    • sinology - the study of Chinese history and language and culture
    • stemmatics, stemmatology - the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
    • trivium - (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
    • quadrivium - (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
    same as: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts

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