A more complete definition that we prefer, which we’ll use as the reference going forward is: A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of subject areas, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'polymath.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. In Greek, polymath means having learned much, and in Latin universal man. 2021 Young was an English polymath who made contributions to a wide range of fields, including music, physiology, medicine, and linguistics.ĭavid Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2021 Budiansky brings a polymath’s interest to bear on a man whose life intersected with the political and philosophical upheavals of the 20th century. 2021 Lucretius, the Epicurean polymath, believed that odor was a function of geometry. 2021 For the fashion designer Virgil Abloh, the polymath of his cohort, who died on Sunday of a rare cardiac cancer, offensively too young, the center was architecture.ĭoreen St.
2022 The polymath Danchev is well-equipped to investigate Magritte’s singular mind. 2021 After all, as the English writer and polymath John Ruskin liked to say, the stripes of a zebra do not describe its underlying bones or muscles. A polymath (Greek:, polymaths, 'having learned much' Latin: homo universalis, 'universal human') is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. 2022 For the polymath, there is always a cardinal subject, a chief preoccupation around which all the other interests spin.ĭoreen St. Recent Examples on the Web Lennox, the firebrand Scott, and Stewart, the English polymath, joined forces in the late 1970s in The Tourists, then changed the game with Eurythmics.
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