Is there a word such as "Learnings"? [closed]
Oxford dictionaries online defines learning as:
[mass noun]
1 The acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught.
‘these children experienced difficulties in learning’
1.1 Knowledge acquired through study, experience, or being taught.
‘I liked to parade my learning in front of my sisters’
1.2 (usually learnings) [count noun] A thing learned by experience; a lesson. ‘the learnings from the mission will help NASA plan for a future mission to Mars’
Lexico mis-labels "mass usage" as "mass noun" (and "count usage" as "count noun"). It could be claimed that learnings is a plural-form mass usage. "Three learnings" sounds totally unidiomatic, so this seems a sensible analysis. [Credit to Edwin Ashworth for this paragraph]
So there are two usages of "learning":
- As an unpluralised non-count noun, i.e. "learning" as a concept
- As a pluralised mass usage, i.e. you can talk about "the learnings from this event", but you can't say "there are three learnings from this event"
Note: It appears you may not be using the word "learning" correctly anyway. See PV22's answer for some alternatives.
Prescriptivists may claim there is no such word. But Shakespeare used the word, and that is good enough for me.
Puts to him all the Learnings that his time Could make him the receiuer of.
Cymbeline