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Learning vs Athenaeum - What's the difference?

learning | athenaeum |

As nouns the difference between learning and athenaeum

is that learning is (uncountable) an act in which something is learned while athenaeum is an association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.

As a verb learning

is .

learning

English

Verb

(head)
    • I'm learning to ride a unicycle.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
    • Learning to ride a unicycle sounds exciting.
  • (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
    • The department head was also a scholar of great learning .
  • (countable) Something that has been learned
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 5, author=Stuart Elliott, title=Online Experiment for Print Magazine, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.” }}

    Usage notes

    Countable sense “thing learned” often used in plural form (m); see for details.

    Derived terms

    * book-learning * higher learning * learning curve * learning disability * learning by doing

    athenaeum

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=June 3, author=Michael Miner, title=Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names. }}
  • A building for storing books or newspapers; a library, reading room etc.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Christopher Morley, title=Plum Pudding, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum ; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine. }}