erudition

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From Latin eruditio (an instructing, learning, erudition) < erudire (to instruct, educate, cultivate, lit. free from rudeness) < e (out) + rudis (rude).

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Singular
erudition

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erudition (uncountable)

  1. profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship

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