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What is a polymath?

What is a polymath? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
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In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme polymath.
The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank.
However, the main point I’d like to state here is that you cannot be a polymath without first having been a philomath as every polymath was first a philomath.
An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.

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