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

And be sure to tune into the Boiling Point Podcast, where this week host Miranda Green convened a panel of hopeful and determined thinkers to talk about a warming world at NYC Climate Week.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
But more recently, many EA thinkers have focused their concerns on the possibility of existential risks from advanced AI and other potential societal-scale disasters such as nuclear war, climate change and pandemics.

— Katie McQue, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of thinkers

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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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Rabies is a rare but serious viral disease that can infect the brains of both people and animals, according to the California Department of Public Health.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
There's been a revolution in recent decades in understanding how children's brains develop and are changed by trauma.

— Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of brains

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Scholars and intellectuals have long argued that the rejection and hatred of Haitians by some sections of Dominican society are actually a rejection of the Blackness that Haitian identity and culture represents.

— Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
For the artists and intellectuals who lived there across two decades of pioneering residency programs, Georgia’s Ossabaw Island was a potent source of inspiration.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

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