Polymathic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

    "Is it uncharitable to want a book that achieves so much to do more? Perhaps. Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious."

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"Is it uncharitable to want a book that achieves so much to do more? Perhaps. Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious."

Etymology

From polymath + -ic.

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