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Erudition vs Sophistication - What's the difference?

erudition | sophistication |

As nouns the difference between erudition and sophistication

is that erudition is profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship while sophistication is enlightenment or education.

erudition

English

(wikipedia erudition)

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

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

    Related terms

    * erudite

    External links

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    sophistication

    English

    Noun

  • Enlightenment or education.
  • Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
  • Deceptive logic; sophistry.
  • Falsification or contamination.
  • Complexity
  • Ability to deal with complexity
  • (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
    • the sophistication of drugs
    (Boyle)

    Antonyms

    * (cultivated intellectual worldliness) provincialism