knowledgeableness

After all, what would be the value of the passion for knowledge if it resulted only in a certain amount of knowledgeableness and not, in one way or another and to the extent possible, in the knower's straying afield of himself.

They also contain plain errors; when it comes to Clare's natural history terms, hit off by Auden as `pudge and pilewort, petty chap and pooty', the loss to the editors of Margaret Grainger's knowledgeableness is keenly felt.