English noun: humanistic discipline |
1. | humanistic discipline (cognition) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
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| Samples | The college of arts and sciences.
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| Synonyms | arts, humanities, liberal arts |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | art history, beaux arts, chronology, classicalism, classicism, English, fine arts, history, library science, linguistics, literary study, musicology, neoclassicism, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, performing arts, philology, philosophy, quadrivium, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, Sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, trivium |
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