Library / English Dictionary

LEARNEDNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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 ("learnedness" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

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

letters (scholarly attainment)

Derivation:

learned (highly educated; having extensive information or understanding)

learned (having or showing profound knowledge)

Credits