Philomathy vs Philomath - What's the difference?
philomathy | philomath |
(archaic) A lover of learning; a scholar.
* 1824 , Rev. Philip Skelton, The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton, Rector of Fintona , page 27:
* 1896 , John Bach McMaster, Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters , page 108:
An astrologer or predictor.
*2007, Thomas Fleming, Benjamin Frankiln: Inventing America , Sterling point books, age 33
*:"The success of an almanac depended upon the appeal of the "philomath"-the resident astologer who did the writing and predicting."
As nouns the difference between philomathy and philomath
is that philomathy is the love of learning or letters while philomath is a lover of learning; a scholar.philomath
English
Noun
(en noun)- For this (in my humble opinion, not very important purpose, and fitter to employ the talent of a philomath than a Newton) he and Leibnitz, much about the same, struck out a fluxional method, which they both took for a demonstration.
- Jerman for twenty years past had been the author of a Quaker almanac, and had for about the same time been engaged in a fierce almanac warfare with Jacob Taylor, a philomath and a printer of Friends’ books.