humanities Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
   liberal arts; arts; humanistic discipline.
   
   • the college of arts and sciences
2. noun the quality of being humane
   humanity.
   
3. noun the quality of being human
   manhood; humanness; humanity.
   
   • he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
4. noun all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
   humans; human race; humankind; mankind; human beings; world; humanity; man.
   
   • all the world loves a lover
   • she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women

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