What is the meaning of humanities?

noun

• Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills. )
  • usage: "the college of arts and sciences"
  • synonyms: humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts
• The quality of being humane.
  • synonyms: humanity
• The quality of being human.
  • usage: "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"
  • synonyms: humanness, humanity, manhood
• All of the living human inhabitants of the earth.
  • usage: "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
  • synonyms: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man