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The study of language, literature, the arts, and philosophy, sometimes including religion
“What makes the humanities important is that they take the areas where we have insufficient data and try to abstract useful principles from it.”
Elements of culture, especially in the artistic sense
Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit
Broad accumulated cultural knowledge or learnings
Plural for humanity or mankind as a whole
“Serving humanity through compassion and serving humanity through compulsion are two different things.”
Plural for the state or fact of being human
“What is clear is that he attempts to look beneath weirdness to find the common thread of humanity between him and his subject.”
Plural for the quality of showing benevolence, kindness or compassion
“Oporto issued a proclamation that they should comport themselves with compassion and humanity towards the prisoners.”
Plural for any academic subject belonging to the humanities
“Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science.”
Plural for a person's moral or emotional nature or sense of identity
Plural for the quality of not being partisan, of remaining politically independent
Plural for the indefinite progression of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
Plural for cultural or societal way of life
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