Look up: humanities

1. Humanities
   The humanities are often described as being at the centre of learning. They include the the study of reading, writing, language, and thinking. Humanities subjects are those branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, literature, and art, that are concerned with human thought and culture.
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2. humanities
   one of the 25 fields of education in the ISCED which includes the following educational programmes/subject groups: religion and theology; foreign languages and cultures: living or `dead` languages and their literature, area studies; native languages: current or vernacular language and its literature...
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3. Humanities
   A collective term for a range of subjects including: history, geography, religious studies, sociology and others
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4. Humanities
   • (pl. ) of Humanity
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5. humanities
   those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from ... [2 related articles]
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6. Humanities
   Humanities is a term for humane or polite literature, including the study of the ancient classics, in opposition to philosophy and science. In the Scotch universities humanity was formerly applied to the study of the Latin language and literature alone.
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7. Humanities
   by Silanion The `humanities` are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature,...
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