A pantomath is a person who wants to know or knows everything. The word itself is not to be found in common online English dictionaries, the OED, dictionaries of obscure words, or dictionaries of neologisms.
"Polymath" is not synonymous with "philomath," a seeker of knowledge; a polymath is someone who is already in possession of great knowledge. The word "pantomath" has been used to describe a person who knows everything.
: a lover of learning : scholar. especially : a student of mathematics. philomathean.
know-it-all.
Where does logophile come from? Word lovers have been around since words were invented, but the word logophile is more recent, recorded in English at least by the early 1900s.
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Loquacious is an adjective we use to describe someone who talks easily, fluently, and a lot.
Apathetic means uncaring. It's an adjective form of apathy—the state of not caring. It can also mean the absence or suppression of emotion or passion. Apathetic is especially used to describe people with a lack of interest or concern about things, especially those that others find important or exciting.
conceited. adjective. someone who is conceited behaves in a way that shows they think they are very intelligent, skillful, or attractive.
genius. adjective. informal very clever or original.
Noun. melomaniac (plural melomaniacs) One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music. [
philozoic (comparative more philozoic, superlative most philozoic) Fond of animals. (rare) Loving one's fellow man; philanthropic.
Noun. hippophile (plural hippophiles) A person who loves horses. quotations ▼
It's the fact that they're all polymaths – individuals whose knowledge spans a substantial number of fields from science to technology and the arts. Elon Musk considers himself a designer, engineer, technologist, and even wizard.
None of history's known polymaths quite measure up to Leonardo da Vinci, but here we look back at seven great thinkers set apart by their inventiveness over entirely different domains and by their vigorous creative energy.
A philomath (/ˈfɪləmæθ/) is a lover of learning and studying.
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Some common synonyms of sly are artful, crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, tricky, and wily.
There is really a name for it. It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias named for two authors of a journal article describing how people overestimate their competence or cognitive abilities and don't realize these errors.
egocentric. adjectivethinking very highly of oneself. conceited. egoistic. egoistical.
A person who is quiet and does not often talk very much can be described as taciturn. Taciturn implies that a person does not talk because they are thought to be unfriendly. Her father was a shy, taciturn man. If someone uses too few words in a way that seems rude or unfriendly, you can call them abrupt.
Despite the name, the real problem for people with alexithymia isn't so much that they have no words for their emotions, but that they lack the emotions themselves. Still, not everyone with the condition has the same experiences. Some have gaps and distortions in the typical emotional repertoire.
If you have schizoid personality disorder, you may be seen as a loner or dismissive of others, and you may lack the desire or skill to form close personal relationships. Because you don't tend to show emotion, you may appear as though you don't care about others or what's going on around you.
pauciloquent in British English
(pɔːˈsɪləkwənt ) adjective. rare. using few words in speech or conversation.
: relating to, occupying, or having the character of space. : of, relating to, or involved in the perception of relationships (as of objects) in space. tests of spatial ability.
A garrulous person just won't stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...). Garrulous comes from the Latin word garrire for "chattering or prattling." If someone is garrulous, he doesn't just like to talk; he indulges in talking for talking's sake — whether or not there's a real conversation going on.