Erudition Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕryə-dĭshən, ĕrə-
Known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. knowledge
  2. education
  3. instruction
  4. learning
  5. scholarship
  6. science
Higher education
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. learning
  2. scholarship
  3. knowledge
  4. education
  5. eruditeness
  6. literacy
  7. learnedness
  8. lore
  9. enlightenment
  10. refinement
  11. studiousness
  12. wisdom
  13. encyclopedism
  14. encyclopaedism
Antonyms:
  1. ignorance
Deep, extensive learning.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. knowledge

Words Related to Erudition

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Erudition Sentence Examples

  • He was a man of erudition, but he owed his fame chiefly to his personality.

  • The noticeable barrenness of Italian literature at this period is referable to the fact that men of genius and talent devoted themselves to erudition and struggled to express their thoughts and feelings in a speech which was not natural.

  • Resolute in recognizing erudition as the chief concern of man, he sighed over the folly of popes and princes, who spent their time in wars and ecclesiastical disputes when they might have been more profitably employed in reviving the lost learning of antiquity.

  • He had strong sense with profound erudition, was one of the best writers of his time and an excellent preacher.

  • His moderation, good sense, wisdom, temper, firmness and erudition made him as successful in this position as he had been when professor of theology, and he speedily surrounded himself with a band of scholarly young men.

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