philomath vs scholarly person

philomath and scholarly person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
philomath	Yes	No	No	No
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholarly person is a hypernym of philomath; that is, scholarly person is a word with a broader meaning than philomath:

philomath: a lover of learning
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of philomath include bookman, scholar.

philomath (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
a lover of learning	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines