humanistic discipline

1. 1.

   studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

   “the college of arts and sciences”

   Synonymshumanitiesliberal artsarts

   Broaderdiscipline

   NarrowerneoclassicismclassicismRomanticisminterior designEnglishhistoryart historychronologyfine artsperforming arts

Questions about humanistic discipline

What does humanistic discipline mean?

humanistic discipline means "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)".

What is another word for humanistic discipline?

Close synonyms include humanities, liberal arts, arts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humanistic discipline a common word?

humanistic discipline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.