pundit vs scholarly person

pundit and scholarly person both are nouns.

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

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

pundit: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of pundit include bookman, scholar.

pundit (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines