erudition
noun
Origin of erudition
Synonyms for erudition
Related Words for erudition
refinement, cultivation, knowledge, savvy, science, culture, learning, lore, pedantry, literacy, enlightenment, scholarship, letters, studiousness, brains, intellectuality, scholarlinessExamples from the Web for erudition
Contemporary Examples of erudition
As you can see, there is plenty of erudition to go with the laughs.
But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.
Charles D’Ambrosio’s X-Ray Vision Is On Full Display In His New Essay Collection.Steve Almond
November 14, 2014
Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.
Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.’ Plumbs the Deep Fun of Philosophical FictionDrew Smith
October 1, 2014
Anderson carries his erudition lightly, but there's enough scholarship there to make an academic proud.
I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.
Historical Examples of erudition
Did our author owe this insight to erudition or to poetic intuition?
The student who has not succeeded in stifling it is lost for ever to erudition.
BalthasarAnatole France
In Europe, erudition, research, and collections of rules have not been wanting.
But the eighteenth century was not the century of erudition.
Diderot and the EncyclopdistsJohn Morley
His erudition sat lightly on him, for it was simply a means to the end of his art.
John LylyJohn Dover Wilson