humanities vs literary study

literary study vs humanities

humanities and literary study both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
humanities	Yes	No	No	No
literary study	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, literary study is a hyponym of humanities; that is, literary study 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)
literary study: the humanistic study of literature

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, 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)	literary study (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	the humanistic study of literature

Difference between humanities and literary study

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