renaissance person
Multi-talented individual
A renaissance person has wide-ranging knowledge and skills across multiple fields—arts, sciences, athletics, languages.
The term evokes Leonardo da Vinci, who excelled as painter, engineer, anatomist, and inventor.
Unlike a dilettante, a renaissance person achieves genuine competence in diverse areas: She's a true renaissance person—concert pianist, published physicist, and competitive sailor.
Also renaissance man or renaissance woman.
- polymathMulti-domain expert
- geniusPerson of rare brilliance
- LeonardoItalian masculine name
- Da VinciTuscan Renaissance polymath
- versatileCapable in varied contexts
talented · multifaceted · triple threat · accomplished · scholar · man of letters · artist · inventor · humanist · liberal arts · cultured · educated · Florence · Michelangelo · prodigy · brilliant · jack-of-all-trades · jack of all trades
- generalistsgeneralist, all-rounder, jack of all trades, jack-of-all-trades, polymath
- amateursamateur, hobbyist, nonprofessional, dabbler, novice
renaissance personspecialist
Expert in one field
one-trick pony · monomaniac · idiot savant · technocrat · wonk
renaissance personphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
anti-intellectual · ignoramus · dullard · know-nothing · boor
renaissance personunderachiever
One performing below capacity
mediocrity · incompetent · plodder · dilettante · dabbler
renaissance, person, renascence, native, nation, national, nationality, nationalize, neonate