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Renaissance man


n.

A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences.


 
 
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
  Synonym: generalist

Meaning #2: a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics


 
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