Synonyms for erudition
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Noun
1. Knowledge — profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship
knowledge, learning, scholarship, wisdom, lore, science, letters, letter, information, eruditeness, learnedness, encyclopaedism, scholarism dated rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
Related words
- Word family
- erudite
Forms
- Plural
- eruditions → knowledges, learnings, scholarships, wisdoms…
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Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- knowledge Anna married without the knowledge of her parents.
- wisdom We admired his wisdom, not to mention his courage.
- scholarship If I were you, I would apply for the scholarship.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| erudition | steady | |
| knowledge | rising | |
| wisdom | rising | |
| scholarship | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- lore1
- 6 letters
- letter2, wisdom2
- 7 letters
- science2, letters2
- 8 letters
- learning2
- 9 letters
- knowledge2
- 10 letters
- scholarism
- 11 letters
- information4, scholarship3, eruditeness, learnedness
- 14 letters
- encyclopaedism
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (letter2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- érudition
- Italiano
- erudizione
- Deutsch
- Gelehrsamkeit