Orientalism vs humanities

Orientalism and humanities both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Orientalism	Yes	No	No	No
humanities	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, humanities is a hypernym of Orientalism; that is, humanities is a word with a broader meaning than Orientalism:

Orientalism: the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people
humanities: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Other hypernyms of Orientalism include arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts.

Orientalism (noun)	humanities (noun)
the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people	studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)