erudites
Deeply knowledgeable people
Erudites is the plural of erudite used as a noun, referring to people who possess or display extensive knowledge gained through study and reading.
While erudite more commonly functions as an adjective an erudite professor, the noun form designates scholarly or learned individuals as a class: The erudites gathered at the symposium to debate classical texts.
The term carries connotations of deep, bookish learning rather than practical or streetwise knowledge.
People of scholarly pursuits
- scholarsExperts in a field
- academicsProfessional researchers and teachers
- savantsExceptionally learned individuals
- polymathsBroadly knowledgeable scholars
bookish · pedants · literati · sages · professors · philosophers · thinkers · bibliophiles
Those claiming superiority
- highbrowsCultured, educated people
- bluestockingsIntellectual or literary women
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
- rarefiedMade less dense
exclusive · cultured · refined · sophisticated · patrician · aristocratic · privileged · establishment
Professional document copiers
- monksCloistered religious men
- clericsOrdained religious officials
- abbotsMale monastery superiors
- rabbisOrdained Jewish spiritual leaders
pandits · mandarins · rhetoricians · scholastics · humanists · renaissance · enlightenment · academies
intellectuals
People of scholarly pursuits
- scholarsExperts in a field
- academicsProfessional researchers and teachers
- savantsExceptionally learned individuals
polymaths · bookish · pedants · literati · sages · professors · philosophers · thinkers · bibliophiles · researchers
elitists
Those claiming superiority
- highbrowsCultured, educated people
- bluestockingsIntellectual or literary women
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
rarefied · exclusive · cultured · refined · sophisticated · patrician · aristocratic · privileged · establishment · coterie
scribes
Professional document copiers
rabbis · pandits · mandarins · rhetoricians · scholastics · humanists · renaissance · enlightenment · academies · libraries
eruditesignoramuses
Profoundly uninformed persons
dunces · illiterates · know-nothings · ignorants · simpletons
eruditesphilistines
Uncultured, materialistic people
anti-intellectuals · lowbrows · vulgarians · dilettantes · amateurs
eruditesphilistines
Uncultured, materialistic people
anti-intellectuals · lowbrows · boors · yahoos · rubes