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1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
   "the college of humanities and sciences"
   - humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts

1. The quality of being humane
    
2. The quality of being human
   "he feared the speedy decline of all humanity"
   - humanness, manhood
    
3. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth
   - world, human race, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man

See also: human, humane, humanitarian, nonhuman

Type of: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, group, grouping, homo, human, human being, humaneness, man, quality, study, subject, subject area, subject field

Encyclopedia: Humanities