learnedness
Deep intellectual cultivation
Learnedness is the quality of having extensive knowledge, especially from scholarly study.
The word is formal and somewhat old-fashioned, often appearing in academic or literary contexts: His learnedness impressed the faculty.
It emphasizes accumulated erudition rather than natural intelligence.
Understood facts and skills
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
cognition · grasp · familiarity · literacy · numeracy · proficiency · competence · expertise
Educational funding or erudition
- eruditionExtensive scholarly knowledge
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- profundityIntellectual or emotional depth
- intellectualismEmphasis on reasoning pursuits
sagacity · pedantry · bookishness · scholarliness · letters · enlightenment · cultivation · discernment
Higher education community
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
fellowship · research · professoriate · lectureship · postgraduate · philology · seminar · academician
Mental reasoning capacity
- brainpowerIntellectual capacity
- geniusPerson of rare brilliance
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- logicScience of valid reasoning
analytical · cognitive · cerebral · perception · aptitude · brilliance · cleverness · sharpness
knowledge
Understood facts and skills
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
awareness · cognition · grasp · familiarity · literacy · numeracy · proficiency · competence · expertise · information
scholarship
Educational funding or erudition
- eruditionExtensive scholarly knowledge
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- profundityIntellectual or emotional depth
intellectualism · sagacity · pedantry · bookishness · scholarliness · letters · enlightenment · cultivation · discernment · sophistication
academia
Higher education community
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
thesis · fellowship · research · professoriate · lectureship · postgraduate · philology · seminar · academician · curriculum
intellect
Mental reasoning capacity
- brainpowerIntellectual capacity
- geniusPerson of rare brilliance
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
logic · analytical · cognitive · cerebral · perception · aptitude · brilliance · cleverness · sharpness · wit
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- intellectintelligence, intellect, brainpower, mind, cognition
learnednessignorance
Absence of knowledge
illiteracy · nescience · cluelessness · benightedness · confusion
learnednessnaivety
Innocent lack of experience
unsophistication · philistinism · crudeness · anti-intellectualism · boorishness
learn, learning, learned, learner, unlearned, learnt, learners, relearn, relearning