1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
   "the college of humanities and sciences";
   - humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts

1. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth
   "The pandemic affected all of humanity";
   - world, human race, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
    
2. The quality of being human
   "he feared the speedy decline of all humanity";
   - humanness, manhood
    
3. The quality of being humane
   "His humanity shone through in his treatment of the refugees"

See also: human, nonhuman

Type of: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, group, grouping, homo, human, human being, humaneness, man, quality, study, subject, subject area, subject field

Encyclopedia: Humanities, arts and social sciences