humanities

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

QUIZZES

Search your capacious memory for the meaning of October’s words!

Question 1 of 9

Which Word of the Day from this month means, “an irrational dislike; loathing”?

The doctors promise that the initiative will “disarm the boundaries between psychiatry, humanities, and hip-hop culture.”
Hip-Hop Psychology: Using Music to Fight Mental Illness|Charlotte Lytton|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Only eight percent of American college students now major in the humanities.
Richard Hofstadter and America’s New Wave of Anti-Intellectualism|David Masciotra|March 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No one studies the humanities or fine arts for their practical value.
Richard Hofstadter and America’s New Wave of Anti-Intellectualism|David Masciotra|March 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Higher education suffers from a breakdown of the humanities.
Can Higher Education Really Save Our Humanity?|James Poulos|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That kind of thinking is extremely dangerous because it puts the humanities under siege.
Legendary Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Shows Us How Berkeley Works|Nico Hines|November 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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
I remember my humanities well enough to teach her all the Latin, Greek, and mathematics she needs.
The Master of Warlock|George Cary Eggleston
On anything that could be related to the humanities he's very slow, but in the physical sciences he's out of this world.
The Short Life|Francis Donovan
They plied a simple, primitive agriculture, practised a primitive healing art, and otherwise evolved The Humanities.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction|Arabella Kenealy
It no longer forms part of the humanities, it no longer gives man the honor of a separate rank.
Amiel's Journal|Henri-Frdric Amiel