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Erudition vs Intellect - What's the difference?

erudition | intellect |

As nouns the difference between erudition and intellect

is that erudition is erudition while intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable) .

erudition

English

(wikipedia erudition)

Noun

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  • Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.

    • Synonyms

    * (profound knowledge) knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism

    Related terms

    * erudite

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    intellect

    English

    Noun

  • the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
    • Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
  • the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
    • They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
  • a person who has that faculty to a great degree
    • Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * intellectual * intellectualism * intellectualize * intelligence * intelligent * intelligentsia * intelligible

    See also

    * mind