-niŋ, -nēŋ noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English lerning, from Old English leornung, from leornian to learn + -ung -ing
1.
a.
(1) : the act or experience of one that learns
the learning of a trade
gives … evidence of trial-and-error learning in paramecia — W.N.Kellogg
learning may be regarded as a property of all living organisms — R.C.Noble
learning experiences
(2) : the process of acquisition and extinction of modifications in existing knowledge, skills, habits, or action tendencies in a motivated organism through experience, practice, or exercise — compare maturation
b.
(1) : something that is learned or taught
increasing the practical value of the learnings — H.R.Douglass
the film does provide learnings — Catherine M. Adler
specifically : a subject that is taught in school
emphasize the mastery of essential learnings — M.B.Smith
(2) obsolete : acquirement
2.
a. : knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study : erudition
book learning
a man of good education and learning — Jonathan Swift
obtuseness in perception can never be made good by any amount of learning — John Dewey
b. : knowledge accumulated and handed down by generations of scholars : culture
learning is a sacred deposit from the experience of ages — William Hazlitt
Assyrian learning of the seventh century B.C. is well represented — H.J.J.Winter
3. dialect : formal education : schooling
Synonyms: see knowledge