Erudition(n.) Extensive learning; deep knowledge of literature, history, language; the act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
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Sophia, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, broad-mindedness, broadening the mind, classical scholarship, classicism, cultivation, culture, depth, donnishness, education, eruditeness, good understanding, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectual acquirement, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, mastery of skills, mellow wisdom, memorization, mental cultivation, mental culture, pedantism, pedantry, profoundness, profundity, reading, ripe wisdom, sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship, science, seasoned understanding, self-instruction, sound understanding, storing the mind, studiousness, wisdom, wiseness