Idiot Savant (Noun)
Meaning
Person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Kim Peek, often referred to as an idiot savant, could recite books word-for-word, memorize phonebooks, and demonstrate remarkable calendrical skills.
- After witnessing a brilliant piano performance, some suspected that Tony was an idiot savant who suffered from cognitive disabilities.
- Born in the early 18th century, Jedediah Buxton is widely known for his talents in math as a rural English idiot savant who discovered sophisticated ways of using geometric series to quickly add series.
- Medical scientists researching conditions linked with extraordinary brain power analyze historical and living figures typically recognized as an idiot savant who prove complex things within those tiny world limitations work because cognition as simple means advanced survival practices built right next along left front near eyes physical touching something - despite greatly contradict human condition existence; unfortunately lack skills very survival despite seeing eyes by remembering tiny 'hues visible basic small logic & by visible mind front a light shattering near always under natural hue thinking color.
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