as in genii
formal
someone who knows a lot about many different things
She is rightly regarded as something of a polymath in her extensive knowledge of all the earth sciences.
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Recent Examples of polymaths
Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.
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John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polymaths
geniuses
Noun
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Worldly readers had to wonder what really went on when the geniuses and their wives went home after dinner.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Between them, the gangly mods kept alive the fading tradition of feuding musical geniuses, a path that Paul McCartney and John Lennon had paved before them.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Polymaths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polymaths. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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