humanities vs history

history vs humanities

humanities and history both are nouns.

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

As nouns, history is a hyponym of humanities; that is, history 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)
history: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

Other hyponyms of humanities include neoclassicism, classicalism, classicism, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, interior design, English, 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, area studies, film studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, theatrology, textual scholarship.

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

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