Psychological disorder that turns people to a megasavant, with a serious mental disorder.
1My freshman roommate was an idiot savant who smoked dope all day.
2For our purposes, Herlander Simões is something of an idiot savant.
3So he surrounded himself with sycophants, and the odd idiot savant.
4The idiot savant who made the best bread any of us had ever tasted.
5He's more of idiot savant than a straight up idiot.
6The savant syndrome is the term now used for a condition originally called the idiot savant syndrome.
7Among the five hundred or so patients at the sanatorium was a remarkable idiot savant named Harry.
8When applied to a researcher, it creates an idiot savant, without a life beyond short-range research goals.
9Tommy had proven himself much more than an idiot savant-hehad become a wizard of improvisation and stealth.
10To the subterranean rooms to which Eustace Barring-ton's idiot savant son had been banished at the age of five.
11An idiot savant hears a piano concerto and replays it masterfully, although he or she cannot add two and two.
12At one point, Tom Kettle, a sort of English idiot savant, sets the tone with a line from Henry Thoreau.
13Speck is, however, an idiot savant as a hobbyist, creating utterly charming dioramas out of stuffed mice wearing tiny costumes.
14Look, you don't know this about me yet, but I'm like an idiot savant, except I've just got the idiot part.
15A matchbox falls and the idiot savant can state, without looking at the box, the exact number of matches that fell out.
16Most of Schubert's friends remembered him as a sort of permanently tipsy idiot savant; this image was standard in the nineteenth century.
Translations for idiot savant