monomath
Noun
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Noun
monomath (plural monomaths)
- A person with an extensive knowledge of a single subject or field, but little knowledge of others.
- 1960, National Review, Volume 8, page 52 ↗:
- It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.
- 2006, Michael Bywater, "Master of all trades ↗", New Statesman, 13 November 2006:
- We don't like polymaths any more. Perhaps it's because even being a monomath is too difficult now; even specialists specialise only in a small subset of their specialty, and learning is an either/or business.
- 2009, Edward Carr, "The Last Days of the Polymath ↗", Intelligent Life, Autumn 2009:
- Posner first made his name as a monomath. “I had a very big intellectual commitment for many years to anti-trust law. I wrote a lot about that.” Eventually, though, the polymath rose to the surface and he put anti-trust behind him.
- 1960, National Review, Volume 8, page 52 ↗:
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