# humanities

Pronunciation: say "hyoo-MAN-i-teez" /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/

## Noun

1. The academic disciplines concerned with human culture, namely language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, and sometimes also religion.
   - Simple: The school and college subjects that study language, literature, art, history, and philosophy.
   - _Her interest in the humanities led her to study both poetry and ancient history._
   - _Budget cuts forced the college to merge several departments within the humanities._
2. Plural of humanity. — plural of humanity
   - Simple: Plural of humanity, for more than one act of kindness. This use is rare.

## Noun

3. The study of Ancient Greek and Latin and their literature; classical studies. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The study of Ancient Greek and Latin and the books written in them.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/humanities (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).