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
Related terms
* erudite
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literature Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)
Noun
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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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- 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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Related terms
* letter
* literal
* literacy
* literate
* literary
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