Literary
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Relating to literature. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. Knowledgeable of literature or writing. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. Bookish.
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: Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.