erudition

From Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹʊˈdɪʃən/

erudition (countable and uncountable, plural eruditions)

1. Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.

• (profound knowledge): knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism

• erudite

• erudition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• erudition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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