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Erudition vs Literature - What's the difference?

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Erudition is a synonym of literature.


As nouns the difference between erudition and literature

is that erudition is erudition while literature is the body of all written works.

erudition

Noun

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

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

    literature

    English

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    Alternative forms

    * literatuer (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The body of all written works.
  • The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
  • All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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  • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
  • Written fiction of a high standard.
  • However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

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