different between erudition vs sophistication

English

Etymology

[15th Century] From Middle French érudition, from Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????d???n/

Noun

erudition (countable and uncountable, plural eruditions)

1. Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
2. The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.

Synonyms

• (profound knowledge): knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism

Related terms

• erudite
• rude

Translations

Further reading

• erudition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• erudition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• erudition at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

sophisticate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??f?s.t??ke?.??n/

Noun

sophistication (countable and uncountable, plural sophistications)

1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification or contamination.
5. Complexity.
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
7. (archaic) The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

   the sophistication of drugs

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Antonyms

• (cultivated intellectual worldliness): provincialism

Derived terms

• oversophistication

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.fis.ti.ka.sj??/

Noun

sophistication f (plural sophistications)

1. sophistication