idiot savant
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idiot savant
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From French idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
noun idiots savants · idiot savants
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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.
Similar: autistic savant
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