erudition

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ERUDITION

the understanding and information gained from being educated <a theologian of impressive erudition but with a down-to-earth manner>

Synonyms erudition, knowledge, learnedness, learning, literacy, scholarship

Related Words culture, edification, enlightenment; reading; bookishness, pedantry

Near Antonyms functional illiteracy

Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness

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