humanities


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

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How to use humanities in a sentence

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

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

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

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

    Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Education in pursuing the so-called “humanities” has been holding up to view a hypothetical man in a hypothetical environment.