humanities vs philosophy

philosophy vs humanities

humanities and philosophy both are nouns.

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

As nouns, philosophy is a hyponym of humanities; that is, philosophy 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)
philosophy: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

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, 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)	philosophy (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
	any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation

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