A person who emphasizes or specializes in erudition; someone devoted to scholarly learning and study.
Erudition plus the noun-forming suffix -ist (meaning 'one who practices or specializes in'), following patterns like 'specialist' and 'journalist.'
The -ist suffix names people dedicated to something—an 'eruditionist' is someone obsessed with learning for its own sake, like a true academic!
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