POLYHISTORS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

polyhistors

noun

plural of polyhistor

as in Renaissance men

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Noun

Leonardo was one of history’s greatest polymaths, filling notebooks with designs across a range of disciplines, including flying machines that wouldn't be realized for centuries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

Definition of polymaths

Noun

Kashmir’s Shaiva Hindu thinkers produced some of South Asia’s most influential texts on consciousness.

— Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
The Sparks need to not hire college wonders — no Cori Close — and enlist some good old-fashioned WNBA veteran thinkers and evaluators and leaders.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of thinkers

Noun

Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.

— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026

Definition of intellects

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After nine years of breaking defensive coordinators' brains, the 35-year-old Swiss Army knife announced Wednesday that his run with the New Orleans Saints has come to an end.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
On MRIs, sometimes doctors can see little dots of scar tissue in the brains of people who get migraines.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 30 July 2026

Definition of brains

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This tradition of forceful anti-American sentiment among European intellectuals went into steep decline after the abrupt end of the Cold War in the late Eighties.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Joanne Freeman, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Kevin Kruse have become a new class of liberal public intellectuals, translating the past into political commentary.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

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