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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

content, cognitive content, mental object go
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain go
the content of a particular field of knowledge

study, discipline, field, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, bailiwick go
a branch of knowledge

humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

noun.cognition

20 Subcategories

neoclassicism go
revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
classicism, classicalism go
a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Romanticism, Romantic Movement go
a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
English go
the discipline that studies the English language and literature
history go
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
art history go
the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture
chronology go
the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events
fine arts, beaux arts go
the study and creation of visual works of art
performing arts go
arts or skills that require public performance
Occidentalism go
the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people
Orientalism, Oriental Studies go
the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people
philosophy go
the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
literary study go
the humanistic study of literature
library science go
the study of the principles and practices of library administration
linguistics, philology go
the humanistic study of language and literature
musicology go
the scholarly and scientific study of music
Sinology go
the study of Chinese history and language and culture
stemmatology, stemmatics go
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)
trivium go
(Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric
quadrivium go
(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy