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Renaissance man

 
Dictionary: 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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Renaissance Man may refer to:

  • Polymath, a person who excels in multiple fields
  • "Renaissance Man" (Star Trek: Voyager), the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • Renaissance Man (film), a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, and Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Renaissance humanism, man philosophically considered in its meaning as mankind construes humanism as man of the renaissance category of that school of thought

 
 

 

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