humanities vs musicology

musicology vs humanities

humanities and musicology both are nouns.

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

As nouns, musicology is a hyponym of humanities; that is, musicology 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)
musicology: the scholarly and scientific study of music

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, Sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, trivium, quadrivium, game studies, ludology, Etruscology, area studies, film studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, theatrology, textual scholarship.

humanities (noun)	musicology (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	the scholarly and scientific study of music

Difference between humanities and musicology

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