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n. (cognition) | 1. arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).; "the college of arts and sciences" |
| ~ discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study | a branch of knowledge.; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" |
| ~ neoclassicism | revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation. |
| ~ classicalism, classicism | a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" |
| ~ romantic movement, romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization.; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" |
| ~ english | the discipline that studies the English language and literature. |
| ~ history | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings.; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" |
| ~ art history | the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture. |
| ~ chronology | the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events. |
| ~ beaux arts, fine arts | the study and creation of visual works of art. |
| ~ performing arts | arts or skills that require public performance. |
| ~ occidentalism | the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people. |
| ~ oriental studies, orientalism | the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people. |
| ~ philosophy | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics. |
| ~ literary study | the humanistic study of literature. |
| ~ library science | the study of the principles and practices of library administration. |
| ~ philology, linguistics | the humanistic study of language and literature. |
| ~ musicology | the scholarly and scientific study of music. |
| ~ sinology | the study of Chinese history and language and culture. |
| ~ stemmatics, stemmatology | the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis).; "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" |
| ~ trivium | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence. |
| ~ quadrivium | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy. |
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