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Academic vs Literary - What's the difference?

academic | literary |

As adjectives the difference between academic and literary

is that academic is while literary is relating to literature.

As a noun academic

is .

academic

English

Alternative forms

* academick (obsolete) * acad, (abbreviation) * Academic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.
  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
  • * academic courses -
  • * academical study -
  • Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to scientific or vocational; having no practical importance.
    • I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
  • (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of (Vitruvius).

    • Derived terms

    * academic advantage * academic disadvantage * academic institution * academic question * academic degree * academic discipline

    Related terms

    * academia * academical * academically * academically disadvantaged * academicals * academism * academist * academy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  • A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The multiplexed metropolis , passage=Academics
  • A member of the Academy; an academician.
  • *, II.4.2.ii:
    • Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
  • (pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
  • (pluralonly) Academic studies.

    • Derived terms

    See also

    * scientific

    References

    External links

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    literary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to literature.
    • literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation
  • * Johnson
    • He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
  • Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
    • a literary man
  • * Mason
    • in the literary as well as fashionable world
  • Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
  • Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
  • Bookish.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theory

    Related terms

    * letter * literal * literacy * literate * literature

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

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