Erudition vs Encyclopedia - What's the difference?
erudition | encyclopedia |
Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
(dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between erudition and encyclopedia
is that erudition is profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship while encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with in-depth articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.erudition
English
(wikipedia erudition)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (profound knowledge) knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarismExternal links
* * *encyclopedia
English
(wikipedia encyclopedia)Alternative forms
* (chiefly British) encyclopaedia * (obsolete)Noun
- I only use the library for the encyclopedia , as we’ve got most other books here.
- His life's work was a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.