humanities

1. One of the main branches of learning. A scholar of the humanities studies history, literature, the fine arts , and philosophy .

Example Sentences

The doctors promise that the initiative will “disarm the boundaries between psychiatry, humanities, and hip-hop culture.”

From The Daily Beast

His partner in business, David Packard, similarly gave $1.65 billion to his Packard Humanities Institute the year before.

From The Daily Beast

Only eight percent of American college students now major in the humanities.

From The Daily Beast

No one studies the humanities or fine arts for their practical value.

From The Daily Beast

Higher education suffers from a breakdown of the humanities.

From The Daily Beast

A commanding brow, thoughtful eyes, and a mouth that seemed to respond to all humanities.

From Project Gutenberg

The humanities became the fashion, just as science became the fashion in the nineteenth century.

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For a considerable period, therefore, the humanities had to be pursued in institutions apart from the universities.

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He was affected below all the surface that worldly thoughts and habits had laid, stratum by stratum, over the humanities within.

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Education in pursuing the so-called “humanities” has been holding up to view a hypothetical man in a hypothetical environment.

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