humanities

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

humanities

1. plural of humanity

humanities pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.
2. The study of language, literature, the arts, and philosophy, sometimes including religion

Synonyms

• (language, literature, etc.): belles-lettres (obsolete)

Related terms

• humanism
• humanist
• humanistic
• humanity

 

Translations

classical studies — see classical studies

language, literature, etc.

• Burmese: ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာ (wijjapa.nya)
• Catalan: humanitats (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人文科學 (zh), 人文科学 (zh) (rénwén kēxué)

• Czech: společenské vĕdy f pl
• Dutch: geesteswetenschappen (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: homa scienco
• Estonian: humanitaarained, humaniora
• Faroese: hugvísindi n pl
• Finnish: humanismi (fi)
• French: sciences humaines (fr) f pl
• German: Geisteswissenschaften (de) f pl, Humanwissenschaften (de) pl

• Hungarian: humán tárgyak
• Indonesian: humaniora (id)
• Italian: scienze umanistiche (it) f pl
• Japanese: 人文科学 (ja) (jinbun kagaku), 人文学 (jinbungaku)
• Korean: 인문학 (ko) (inmunhak)
• Polish: humanistyka (pl) f, nauki humanistyczne (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: humanas (pt) f pl
• Russian: гуманита́рные нау́ки f pl (gumanitárnyje naúki)
• Slovak: spoločenské vedy f pl
• Swedish: humaniora (sv) c
• Tagalog: katuruang-tao
• Thai: ศิลปศาสตร์ (sǐn-lá-bpà-sàat)
• Turkish: beşerî bilimler

Further reading

• humanities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia