Learning vs Literature - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
(uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
(countable) Something that has been learned
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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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Written fiction of a high standard.
Learning is a related term of literature.
As nouns the difference between learning and literature
is that learning is (uncountable) an act in which something is learned while literature is the body of all written works.As a verb learning
is .learning
English
Verb
(head)- I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
Noun
(en-noun)- Learning to ride a unicycle sounds exciting.
- The department head was also a scholar of great learning .
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Usage notes
Countable sense “thing learned” often used in plural form (m); see for details.Derived terms
* book-learning * higher learning * learning curve * learning disability * learning by doingliterature
English
(wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
- 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