literary study vs literature

literary study and literature both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
literary study	Yes	No	No	No
literature	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, literature is a hyponym of literary study; that is, literature is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than literary study:

literary study: the humanistic study of literature
literature: the humanistic study of a body of literature

Other hyponyms of literary study include lit, comparative literature, lit crit, literary criticism, poetics, classics, rhetoric.

literary study (noun)	literature (noun)
the humanistic study of literature	the profession or art of a writer
	the humanistic study of a body of literature
	creative writing of recognized artistic value
	published writings in a particular style on a particular subject

literary study vs literature

literary study and literature both are nouns.

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