polymath
बहुश्रुत
definition
noun
James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a polymath , with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
translation of 'polymath'
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He was a 'polymath' and was offered a history scholarship before opting for medicine.
I took heart from an interview with Thomas Stoppard where somebody said to him, ‘You're such a 'polymath' ,’ and he said, ‘Yes, for about three months.’
In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style 'polymath' who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter.
a Renaissance 'polymath'
In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme 'polymath' .
An autodidact and a 'polymath' , Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
A prodigious 'polymath' , he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor.
Raskin's CV reads something like a masterclass in being a 'polymath' : he was an accomplished musician, programmer and designer.
Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a 'polymath' spellbound by beauty.
What I didn't know at the time was he was also a 'polymath' , with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory.
A prodigy and a 'polymath' , he first came to notice as ‘the bad boy of music’ in the Twenties Paris avant-garde, associated with Pound.
This mystical attraction to words would lead him not only to become a linguistic 'polymath' , but to invent his own private language, with its own alphabet, which he used in writing his diary.
James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a 'polymath' , with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
That is the daunting task for undaunted talk radio hosts, Web pundits, and bar drunks, and a major reason why such 'polymathic' opinion dispensers rarely provide much more than a light snack for those seeking the nourishment of truth.
Margie Thomson has chronicled his journey from musical whiz kid to 'polymathic' author.
I was discussing the problem with two 'polymathic' friends of mine, reproductive biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart, co-authors of Figments of Reality, Evolving the Alien and The Science of Discworld.
Specialisation is seen as far more desirable than 'polymathy' .
Ben would engage in diverse acts of self-expression - art-works, music, craft-works, scientific theorisations - by which a 'polymathic' apprehension of the world would be concentrated into new forms of representation.
'Polymathy' could not be maintained because of the continuously increasing knowledge base that resulted in the establishment of scientific disciplines and scientists who knew much more in a specific area.
His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, 'polymaths' and mystics.
In it he exhibits a 'polymathic' fluency in nearly every language of social theory from the late 18th century to the present.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shulevitz gushed, ‘Novelists, in short, have become our public intellectuals - our 'polymaths' , our geographers, our scholars of the material world.’
There is a similar irony in the fact that he was one of the last great 'polymaths' - not in the frivolous sense of having a wide general knowledge, but in the deeper sense of one who is a citizen of the whole world of intellectual inquiry.
This, Zimmer claims, was the achievement of the group of virtuosi - highly talented 'polymaths' more or less trapped in Oxford during the civil war and the Cromwellian republic of the mid-17th century.
For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of 'polymaths' and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
If you are one of the benighted majority, you should know that he was one of those Victorian Scottish 'polymaths' ; a poet, theologian, and geologist of some genius.
These 'polymaths' often resented their lack of recognition from specialist professional academics, and compensated by seeking political success.
In an age of 'polymaths' who mastered all the disciplines, knew many languages, and wrote more than any modern can read, chronology, with its varied contents and technical difficulties, seemed the essence of scholarship.
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