Difference between Lit and Literature

Lit

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Abbreviated form of literature.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To start (a fire). To run, or light

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Lighted. Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned.

Example sentence: Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Literature

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The body of all written works.The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.Written fiction of a high standard.

Example sentence: Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.