Erudite vs Genius - What's the difference?
erudite | genius |
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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(informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.
(eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
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Extraordinary mental capacity.
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
(Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.
As an adjective erudite
is .As a noun genius is
genius (extraordinary mental capacity).erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
Synonyms
* See alsogenius
English
(wikipedia genius)Adjective
(-)- What a genius idea!