Academic vs. Academia: What's the Difference?

Academic and Academia Definitions
Academic
Of or relating to institutionalized education and scholarship, especially at a college or university.
Academia
The academic community; academe.
Academic
Of or relating to studies that rely on reading and involve abstract thought rather than being primarily practical or technical.
Academia
(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Academic
Relating to scholarly performance
A student's academic average.
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Academia
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
Academic
Academic Of or relating to the conservative style of art promoted by an official academy, especially the Académie des Beaux Arts in France in the nineteenth century.
Academia
The academic world
Academic
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical
Dismissed the article as a dry, academic exercise.
Academic
Having no important consequence or relevancy
The debate about who is to blame has become academic because the business has left town.
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Academic
A faculty member or scholar at an institution of higher learning, such as a university.
Academic
One who has an academic viewpoint or a scholarly background.
Academic
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
The academic sect or philosophy
Academic
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Academic
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
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Academic
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
The distinction is 'academic; an academic question
Academic
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
I'm more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
Academic
(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Academic
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
Academic
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Academic
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
Academic
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
Academic
A member of the Academy; an academician.
Academic
(archaic) A student in a college.
Academic
(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
Academic
(pluralonly) Academic studies.
Academic
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Academic
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
Academic
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Academic
A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
Academic
An educator who works at a college or university
Academic
Associated with academia or an academy;
The academic curriculum
Academic gowns
Academic
Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result;
An academic discussion
An academic question
Academic
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects