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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
erudition \er'u*di"tion\ ([e^]r'[-u]*d[i^]sh"[u^]n), noun [L. eruditio: cf. F. ['e]rudition.] The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded. --Steele.
The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. --Macaulay.
Syn: Literature; learning. See {Literature}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
erudition
noun: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: {eruditeness}, {learnedness}, {learning}, {scholarship}, {encyclopedism}, {encyclopaedism}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "erudition": Sophia, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, broad-mindedness, broadening the mind, classical scholarship, classicism, cultivation, culture, depth, donnishness, education, eruditeness, good understanding, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectual acquirement, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, mastery of skills, mellow wisdom, memorization, mental cultivation, mental culture, pedantism, pedantry, profoundness, profundity, reading, ripe wisdom, sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship, science, seasoned understanding, self-instruction, sound understanding, storing the mind, studiousness, wisdom, wiseness
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ERUDITION, noun Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute
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