noun
definition
A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
Examples of polymath in a Sentence
He really was a most unusual man a genuine polymath.
Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect.
Wendy is still around today, and is a true polymath, working in all kinds of creative and scientific fields.
Purkinje was a polymath who would often meditate at dawn during long walks in the blossomed Bohemian fields.
I'll end with a story about one of my favorite people - Blase Pascal, a French polymath of the 17 th Century.
Unquestionably more of a polymath than a philosopher, he appears uncritical and superficial.
The Gorsedd, as we know it today, was founded by a late eighteenth century Welsh polymath called Edward Williams.
The successors of the polymath claimed to possess and to communicate, not the knowledge of all branches of learning, but an aptitude for dealing with all subjects, which aptitude should make the knowledge of any subject superfluous.
In this polymath we see at once the degradation of the sophistry of culture and the link which connects Protagoras and Prodicus with the eristics, who at a later period taught, not, like Hippias, all branches of learning, but a universally applicable method of disputation.