humanities vs area studies

area studies vs humanities

humanities and area studies both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
humanities	Yes	No	No	No
area studies	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, area studies is a hyponym of humanities; that is, area studies is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than humanities:

humanities: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
area studies: an interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region.

Other hyponyms of humanities include neoclassicism, classicalism, classicism, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, interior design, English, history, art history, chronology, beaux arts, fine arts, performing arts, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, philosophy, literary study, library science, linguistics, philology, musicology, Sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, trivium, quadrivium, game studies, ludology, Etruscology, film studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, theatrology, textual scholarship.

humanities (noun)	area studies (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	an interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region.

Difference between humanities and area studies

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