pantomath means A person who knows everything, or wishes to know everything. It carries an Arena rating of 1460, earned across 7 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, pantomath ranks #896 of 17,128 for Most Whimsical Words, #2,346 of 17,114 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,766 of 17,130 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #4,026 of 17,140 for The Improbable.
Why “pantomath” is a great word
A person who knows everything or who aspires to know everything. From the Greek roots παντ- (pant-, meaning 'all, every') and μαθ- (math-, from μανθάνω, manthanō, meaning 'to learn'). Unlike a polymath, who acquires wide-ranging, genuine expertise, or a philomath, who delights in the process of learning itself, the pantomath is defined by the impossible totality of the pursuit. It is the scholar’s library that can never be complete, the child who cannot sleep for wondering what happens in the unlit corners of the basement, the archivist’s ache after decades of copying every known manuscript—the quiet sorrow of a finite mind tracing the edge of an infinite sum.
noun
- A person who knows everything, or wishes to know everything.
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