Polymath vs False - What's the difference?
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A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
* 1624 , , (The Anatomy of Melancholy) (2nd edn.), p.6:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun polymath
is a person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.polymath
English
(wikipedia polymath)Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors.
Synonyms
* polyhistor * renaissance manAntonyms
* monomathCoordinate terms
* factotum, handyman, jack of all trades, sciolistReferences
* “polymath, n. (a.)'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 * “
polymath, n. ''and'' adj.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., September 2006
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}