Erudition vs Sophistication - What's the difference?
erudition | sophistication |
Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.
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.
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
(-)Synonyms
* (profound knowledge) knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarismExternal links
* * *sophistication
English
Noun
- the sophistication of drugs
- (Boyle)