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Geisteswissenschaft
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German
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Etymology
de :af Geist -s-<alt:-es-> Wissenschaft<t:science>
From de Geist -s- -es- Wissenschaft science.
Pronunciation
de /ˈɡaɪ̯stəsˌvɪsn̩ʃaft/
de De-Geisteswissenschaft.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
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humanities, liberal arts, Geisteswissenschaften the branch of learning that includes the arts, classics, philosophy and history etc.
an individual humanities subject
Usage notes
Like in English ("humanities"), the word in German is more often used in the plural than in the singular.
See the Wikipedia entry Geisteswissenschaften to understand how it differs from the English broad discipline of the Humanities.
Declension
f
Coordinate terms
de Naturwissenschaft
Derived terms
de Geisteswissenschaftler humanities scholar
Related terms
de Geisteswissenschaften
de geisteswissenschaftlich
Further reading
de Education Humanities