scholar vs humanist

humanist vs scholar

scholar and humanist both are nouns.

scholar is not an adjective while humanist is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholar	Yes	No	No	No
humanist	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, humanist is a hyponym of scholar; that is, humanist is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholar:

scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
humanist: a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	humanist (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs	an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
a student who holds a scholarship

scholar (adjective)	humanist (adjective)
	pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
	of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion
	of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
	marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare

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