ERUDITION
Dictionary entry overview: What does erudition mean? • ERUDITION (noun)
The noun ERUDITION has 1 sense:
1. profound scholarly knowledge
Familiarity information: ERUDITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ERUDITION (noun)
Meaning:
Profound scholarly knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship
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)
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