(n) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills), Syn. arts, humanities, liberal arts, Example:the college of arts and sciences
(adj) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare, Syn. humanitarian, human-centred, humanistic, humanist, Example:a humane physician; released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons; respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species
(adj) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; - Wendell Thomas, Syn. humanistic, Example:the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution