ERUDITION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profound scholarly knowledge

Synonyms:

encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("erudition" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erudition"):

letters (scholarly attainment)

Credits