arts
English Thesaurus
1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) (noun.cognition)
| hyponym | : | neoclassicism, |
| definition | : | revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | classicalism, classicism, |
| definition | : | a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | romantic movement, romanticism, |
| definition | : | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | english, |
| definition | : | the discipline that studies the English language and literature (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | history, |
| definition | : | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | art history, |
| definition | : | the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | chronology, |
| definition | : | the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | beaux arts, fine arts, |
| definition | : | the study and creation of visual works of art (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | performing arts, |
| definition | : | arts or skills that require public performance (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | occidentalism, |
| definition | : | the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | philosophy, |
| definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | literary study, |
| definition | : | the humanistic study of literature (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | library science, |
| definition | : | the study of the principles and practices of library administration (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | linguistics, philology, |
| definition | : | the humanistic study of language and literature (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | musicology, |
| definition | : | the scholarly and scientific study of music (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | sinology, |
| definition | : | the study of Chinese history and language and culture (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | stemmatics, stemmatology, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | trivium, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | quadrivium, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy (noun.cognition) |
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