English > humanities: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills). |
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| Synonyms | humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts |
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| Narrower | English | The discipline that studies the English language and literature |
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| Occidentalism | The scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people |
| Orientalism, Oriental Studies | The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people |
| Romanticism, Romantic Movement | A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization |
| Sinology | The study of Chinese history and language and culture |
| art history | The academic discipline that studies the development of painting / painting and sculpture |
| chronology | The determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events |
| classicism, classicalism | A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms |
| fine arts, beaux arts | The study and creation of visual works of art |
| history | The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
| interior design | The branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior |
| library science | The study of the principles and practices of library administration |
| linguistics, philology | The humanistic study of language and literature |
| literary study | The humanistic study of literature |
| musicology | The scholarly and scientific study of music |
| neoclassicism | revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation |
| performing arts | arts or skills that require public performance |
| philosophy | The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
| quadrivium | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university / university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy |
| stemmatology, stemmatics | The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text / text (especially a text / 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 / university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric |
| Broader | discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick | A branch of knowledge |
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| Spanish | artes liberales, artes, humanidades, letras |
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| Catalan | arts, humanitats, lletres |
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| Adjectives | humanist, humanistic, humane | pertaining to or concerned with the humanities |
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