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say it: hyoo-MAN-i-teez
humanities is a noun meaning "studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)". It is pronounced /hjuˈmænɪtiz/ — hyoo-MAN-i-teez. It carries one recorded sense.
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
“the college of arts and sciences”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for humanities come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.