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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A person with an extensive knowledge of a single subject or field, but little knowledge of others..
Posner first made his name as a monomath. “I had a very big intellectual commitment for many years to anti-trust law. I wrote a lot about that.” Eventually, though, the polymath rose to the surface and he put anti-trust behind him.
It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.
We don't like polymaths any more. Perhaps it's because even being a monomath is too difficult now; even specialists specialise only in a small subset of their specialty, and learning is an either/or business.
Use monomath when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Monomath means A person with an extensive knowledge of a single subject or field, but little knowledge of others..
Common synonyms include specialist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Posner first made his name as a monomath. “I had a very big intellectual commitment for many years to anti-trust law. I wrote a lot about that.” Eventually, though, the polymath rose to the surface and he put anti-trust behind him.
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