Adjective : learned professors. ,a learned journal. ,learned in the ways of the world. ,learned behavior.    From Dictionary.com. 

Commondog I’m not trying to cultivate an image of dispassionate learnedness, for so called learnedness has nothing to do with the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Are you just trying to cultivate an image of dispassionate learnedness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It is a practice encouraged early on in school - where proverb galore equals learnedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chunghwamintzu Rulz: thanks for making my point] Reference

There King Henry IV, impressed by his extraordinary learnedness, hailed him as "the miracle of Holland.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugo Grotius] Reference

If ever an ID conference comes near me I will assuredly go and bask in the ignorance…I mean…err…learnedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Design? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In consideration of the number and learnedness of these certificates of character, we approach the lucubrations of the Reverend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

Noted for his learnedness and discretion, Ottaviano is often represented in official portraits as a "twin" or "shadow" to the duke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

The characters give me hope by providing heroic archetypes mostly devoid of social skills, beauty, and brawn, while instead learnedness is unmockingly valued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

I should probably single some people out for particular praise, or show my learnedness by commenting on this or that aspect of the production, but it doesn't seem fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

The contemporary sense of culture, which developed slowly from the intentionality and learnedness of earlier notions of disciplinary improvement, alludes to something like an enigmatic harmony amongst disciplinary practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Abstracts] Reference

Justify it if you must by saying you dig its afro-ness, its worldliness, its learnedness, but come on.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Much Silence] Reference

However, he knew scholars to be an unmannered species; and the doctor's learnedness would be a subject to dilate on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

So we find him writing counterpoint for the sake of the learnedness and presumable respectability, rather than as a piece of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

This age bracket provides a truer sense of a local workforce's collective learnedness and of a region's economic competitiveness, Briem said.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

It aimed at breadth rather than learnedness in a single field, at a many-sided intellectual activity with some love for science, a keen appreciation of Latin and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference

If we were forced to choose between a sense of practical application and learnedness, a sense of practical application would be more important, for one who has this will receive the full benefit of whatever he knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

The mere learnedness of one whose mind is not tamed can produce and increase bad states of consciousness, which cause unpleasantness for himself and others instead of the happiness and peace of mind that were intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

Moreover, some one with the prestige lent by some extraordinary quality or other - as learnedness, or still better, organizing talent - and with the ability, the aplomb, the ruling power which the herd tolerates and demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Dreams] Reference

But it is not my practice to exhibit a white feather (except when prostrated by severe bodily panics), and I am consumed by an ardent impatience to air my fluencies and legal learnedness before the publicity of a London Law Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

Because such danger is great, it is very important to have a composite of learnedness, a sense of practical application and goodness, without having learnedness destroy the sense of practical application or having the sense of practical application destroy learnedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

Wherever a bigfoot journo passes off ignorance as a mark of seriousness an’ learnedness, I’ll be there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foust Of Wrath | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

(the reference is, of course, to the French Institute), the Institute! with all its authoritative, dictatorial learnedness! v. 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

During the 1780s these ideals were complemented by more "civic" qualities like learnedness, seriousness, wisdom and gravity … By the turn of the nineteenth century, the qualities implied by männlich ranged from the aggressive and martial to the civic and moral … ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

That's learnedness, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits of Culture] Reference

If the reader wishes for all this, let him pore over those unhealthy-looking books, whose exterior is dove-coloured as the kirtle of innocence, but their inwards black as the conscience of guilt; whitened sepulchres, all spotless without; but within them are enshrined the quibbling knavery, the distorted ingenuity, the mystifying learnedness, the warped and warping views of truth, the lying, slandering, bad-excusing, good-condemning principles and practices of those who cater for their custom at the guiltiest felon's cell, and would glory in defending.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference