Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being erudite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun profound knowledge.

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  • noun erudition

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  • noun profound scholarly knowledge

Etymologies

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erudite +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • In addition to the myriad other handicaps suffered by LGF and their minions of muddle…Narrow bandwidth low-wattage sophomore humor, miniscule processing capacity for eruditeness and rational thought, faulty cooking skills…They also labor under the sad burden of CPFS.

    Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair… 2006

  • Dargomijsky and Moussorgsky, he brought to his labor an eruditeness that bordered dangerously on pedantry.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • And in this respect, Dante's excellence is very great, and may be contrasted with the idiosyncracies of some meritorious modern poets, who attempt an eruditeness, the result of particular feelings.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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