humanities vs quadrivium

quadrivium vs humanities

humanities and quadrivium both are nouns.

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

As nouns, quadrivium is a hyponym of humanities; that is, quadrivium 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)
quadrivium: (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy

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, game studies, ludology, Etruscology, area studies, film studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, theatrology, textual scholarship.

humanities (noun)	quadrivium (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy

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