history vs humanities

humanities vs history

history and humanities both are nouns.

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

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

history: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
humanities: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

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

history (noun)	humanities (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

Difference between history and humanities

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