academic vs sage

academic

noun
  • A follower of Plato, a Platonist. 

  • 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. 

  • A member of the Academy; an academician. 

  • Academic studies. 

  • Academic dress; academicals. 

adj
  • Having a love of or aptitude for learning. 

  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato 

  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters. 

  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. 

  • Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. 

  • Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance. 

  • In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding. 

  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius. 

sage

noun
  • A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. 

  • Any plant in the genus Salvia 

  • The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. 

  • Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic. 

verb
  • The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. 

adj
  • wise. 

intj
  • Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software. 

How often have the words academic and sage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )