quadrivium vs humanities

quadrivium and humanities both are nouns.

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

As nouns, humanities is a hypernym of quadrivium; that is, humanities is a word with a broader meaning than quadrivium:

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

Other hypernyms of quadrivium include arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts.

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