Erudition
[,erʊ'dɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛru'dɪʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Knowledge (gained by reading and study), learning, lore, scholarship, science, literature.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Learning, lore, letters, scholarship
ANT:Illiterateness, duncedom, sciolism
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Examples
- British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nor were the ?sthetic claims of Latin neglected in this heyday of Greek erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had never been fond of Mr. Casaubon, and if it had not been for the sense of obligation, would have laughed at him as a Bat of erudition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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