erudition

[ er-yoo-dish-uhn, er-oo- ]

noun

1. knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship.

Other Words From

• eru·dition·al adjective
• noner·u·dition noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of erudition¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin ērudītiōn- (stem of ērudītiō ) “an instruction.” See erudite, -ion

Synonym Study

See learning.

Example Sentences

As you can see, there is plenty of erudition to go with the laughs.

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But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.

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Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.

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Anderson carries his erudition lightly, but there's enough scholarship there to make an academic proud.

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I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.

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But it was neither his talents as a diplomatist, nor his remarkable mind, nor his solid erudition, which made Nicot immortal.

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Charity had picked up enough of her companion's erudition to understand what had attracted him to the house.

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A good man, and a scholar of rare erudition, he possessed nevertheless the true temper of a bigot.

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There is no erudition, no sublime thought, nor any production which surpasses the ordinary capacities of the human mind.

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He was a man of great erudition, and there need be no hesitation in accepting this extraordinary prayer as genuine.

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Related Words

• refinement