Humanities
5 definitions retrieved  Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humanities. [L. humanitas: cf. F. humanit['e]. See Human.] 1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. [1913 Webster] 2. Mankind collectively; the human race. [1913 Webster] But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] It is a debt we owe to humanity. --S. S. Smith. [1913 Webster] 3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." --Locke. [1913 Webster] 4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. [1913 Webster] Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. --Holland. [1913 Webster] 5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. [1913 Webster] Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh. [1913 Webster]  humanities n 1: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences" [syn: humanistic discipline, humanities, {liberal arts}, arts]  humanities humántárgyak  humanities Geisteswissenschaften pl (als Studium)  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "humanities": academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, discipline, elective, field, general education, general studies, liberal arts, major, minor, proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education, seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, technical education, trivium Humanities related |
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