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Renaissance man

re·nais·san·ceman

uncommon

noun

1.

a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

  • “a statistician has to be something of a generalist”
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2.

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

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