Yote yapo sawa. Inategemea unaandika nini. For example, you can write " This was purely academic" or "Academicians tend to be very theoretical in their arguments". Sometimes you can refer to "an academician" as "an academic"
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Plus. An academician is almost always a person. But "an academic" can be anything related to academy such as attitudes, theories etc.
Academician is a noun, academic can be a noun or adjective.
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ac·a·de·mi·cian
ˌakədəˈmiSHən,əˌkadəˈmiSHən/
noun
1.
NORTH AMERICAN
an academic; an intellectual.
2.
a member of an academy, especially of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Académie Française, or the Russian Academy of Sciences.
ac·a·dem·ic
ˌakəˈdemik/
adjective
1.
relating to education and scholarship.
"academic achievement"
synonyms:educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical More
2.
not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
"the debate has been largely academic"
synonyms:theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, suppositional; More
noun
1.
a teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education.
synonyms:scholar, lecturer, teacher, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, don, bluestocking;More