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Humanitarian vs Humanities - What's the difference?

humanitarian | humanities |

As nouns the difference between humanitarian and humanities

is that humanitarian is a person with such concerns; a philanthropist or do-gooder while humanities is plural of lang=en.

As an adjective humanitarian

is concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate.

humanitarian

English

(wikipedia humanitarian)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with such concerns; a philanthropist or do-gooder.

    • Derived terms

    * humanitarianism

    External links

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    humanities

    English

    (wikipedia humanities) (wikiversity humanities lecture)

    Noun

    (head)
  • the branch of learning that includes the arts, classics, philosophy and history etc., but not the sciences

    • See also

    * humanity