Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The knowledge of many arts and sciences; acquaintance with many branches of learning, or with various subjects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
knowledge of manyarts andsciences ; variety oflearning .
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Examples
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He was typically hands-on with the venture, teaching classes until recently and sporting the title professor of polymathy.
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He was a man of “staggering polymathy” — a physician, a geologist, a chess expert, an authority on bees and the kaleidoscope.
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He was a man of “staggering polymathy” — a physician, a geologist, a chess expert, an authority on bees and the kaleidoscope.
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Why is polymathy and interdisciplinarity so out of fashion in universities nowadays?
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Why is polymathy and interdisciplinarity so out of fashion in universities nowadays?
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Diogenes Laertius tried to dispute this tradition by quoting Heraclitus 'assertion that “Pythagoras, the son of Mnesarchus, practiced inquiry most of all men and having made a selection from these writings made for himself a wisdom, a polymathy, an evil art” (Fr. 129).
Pythagoras Huffman, Carl 2006
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