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Literature vs Studies - What's the difference?

literature | studies |

As nouns the difference between literature and studies

is that literature is the body of all written works while studies is plural of lang=en.

As a verb studies is

third-person singular of study.

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.
  • *
    • 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

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * letter * literal * literacy * literate * literary

    Anagrams

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    studies

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (study)

    • Noun

    (head)
  • (plural only) An academic field of study concerning the given subject.
    • My boyfriend is taking media studies .

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * American studies * communication studies * consciousness studies * cultural studies * English studies * female studies * game studies * gender studies * legal studies * literary studies * media studies * religious studies * social studies * translation studies * women's studies