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Meanings of idiot savant in anglès

rus
синдром саванта
portuguès
síndrome de savant
espanyol
sindrome del sabio
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síndrome de savant
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Psychological disorder that turns people to a megasavant, with a serious mental disorder.

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síndrome de savant
Usage of idiot savant in anglès
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My freshman roommate was an idiot savant who smoked dope all day.
Caught
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For our purposes, Herlander Simões is something of an idiot savant.
Cauldron of Ghosts
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So he surrounded himself with sycophants, and the odd idiot savant.
The South African
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The idiot savant who made the best bread any of us had ever tasted.
Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
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He's more of idiot savant than a straight up idiot.
Reuters
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The savant syndrome is the term now used for a condition originally called the idiot savant syndrome.
The Irish Times
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Among the five hundred or so patients at the sanatorium was a remarkable idiot savant named Harry.
Notes from a Small Island
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When applied to a researcher, it creates an idiot savant, without a life beyond short-range research goals.
Futures 1
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Tommy had proven himself much more than an idiot savant-hehad become a wizard of improvisation and stealth.
Quantico
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To the subterranean rooms to which Eustace Barring-ton's idiot savant son had been banished at the age of five.
Shadows
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An idiot savant hears a piano concerto and replays it masterfully, although he or she cannot add two and two.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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At one point, Tom Kettle, a sort of English idiot savant, sets the tone with a line from Henry Thoreau.
The Guardian
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Speck is, however, an idiot savant as a hobbyist, creating utterly charming dioramas out of stuffed mice wearing tiny costumes.
Reuters
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Look, you don't know this about me yet, but I'm like an idiot savant, except I've just got the idiot part.
Real life & liars
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A matchbox falls and the idiot savant can state, without looking at the box, the exact number of matches that fell out.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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Most of Schubert's friends remembered him as a sort of permanently tipsy idiot savant; this image was standard in the nineteenth century.
The new yorker