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idiot savants

idiot savants is the plural of idiot savant.

Meaning of idiot savant

Noun

idiot savant (plural idiots savants or idiot savants)

  1. (derogatory, possibly) A person who exhibits an extraordinary ability in one subject (often mathematics) while being intellectually disabled in many other domains.
    • The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus...
    Synonyms:
    autistic savant

Questions about idiot savants

What is idiot savants the plural of?
Idiot savants is the plural of idiot savant.

Words near idiot savants in the dictionary

  1. idiot lights
  2. idiot mittens
  3. idiot sandwich
  4. idiot sandwiches
  5. idiot savant
  6. idiot savants
  7. idiot sheet
  8. idiot sheets
  9. idiot stick
  10. idiot sticks
  11. idiot string

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