What is the root of the word "HUMANITIES"?
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What is the root of the word "HUMANITIES"?
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Explanation:
In fact the term humanities derives from the Latin word humanitas, which designated (1) those powers or capacities regarded as common to, and most characteristic of, "human beings as such," and, secondarily, (2) the cultivation of these aspects of human nature so as to bring them into active realization